“To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.”

“The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.”

“A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought”

“Move on. Be well. Go for it!”

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.”

“We are born not once, but again and again.”

“we aren't born once, but again and again”