I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

Say something worth the words.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels