It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.
I have learned the power of surviving.
I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don’t believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.
When they launch snakes you’ll have your namesake.
Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement – In my end is my beginning.
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
But I don’t forget and I don’t forgive.
I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we’ll always be nothing to our family.
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
One never gets the same summer twice.
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.