“The price of being a hip, swinging chick eventually had become too great to pay.”

“...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”

“One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.”

“if you keep focusing on everyone's journey, you're going to stop paying attention to your own.”

“Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.”

“...I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion.”

“But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.”