“If love disappeared when we touched the fault-lines, it wouldn't be worth much, would it?”

“When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.”

“On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said."Why?""Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”