I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.