“Take what you want, says God, but pay for it”

“What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.”

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.”

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

“It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.”

“Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.""Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.”