Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.