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

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

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

"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."