You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

The past is what you take with you.

Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.