we dislike those we've injured.

I can't exist without books.

They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.