They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

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

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

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.

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

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.