"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."

"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye."

"Though she be but little, she is fierce!"