“We've always known that a marriage our parents approved meant giving up Paris and its bells.”

“I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.”

“D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.”

“If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.”

“...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.”

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”