She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!