Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

oh how television diminishes everything.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.