If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.