“As a woman ravaged by intense pain and the loss of virtually all my life’s goals, I have been transformed by suffering and love. And brought to a higher place.”

“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.”

“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. ”

“Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.”

“The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.”