Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever