“Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.”
“She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark memory.”
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”
“There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.”
“Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.”
“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”