If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

Where do the words go when we have said them?

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.