Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.