roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.

Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.