There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Take me away from all this Death.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

The blood is the life!

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.