People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.