“Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.”

“When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.”

“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”

“You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.”

“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical mind was a tumbled heap of Englishness in all its glory, or kings and queens, of Runnymede and Shakespeare's London, of hansom cabs and Sherlock Holmes and Watson rattling off into the fog with cries of 'The game's afoot,' of civil wars bestrewing the green land with blood, of spinning jennies and spotted pigs and Churchill and his country standing small and alone against the might of Nazi Germany. It was a mystery to her how this benighted land had produced so many great men and women, and ruled a quarter of the world and spread its language and law and democracy across the planet.”

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

“Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.”