Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.