“Fate wouldn't create a man that drop-dead gorgeous and make him gay, would it? Oh yes, fate would.”

“Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.”

“Today, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow.”

“Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?”

“W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous.~Wharton; Jessop”

“Nobody shall drive us away,” I said. “We're going to be happy here.” We said it like a challenge to fate.”

“As for Nigel, she had no wish to burden him with useless remorse even if a note from her would have achieved that object...."Poor old Hilary," he would say, "bad luck"--and it might be that, secretly, he would be rather relieved. Because she guessed that she was, slightly, on Nigel's conscience, and he was a man who wished to feel comfortable with himself.”