“But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy”

“Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.”

“If I could take people out of their heads for a little while, if I could give them a dose of fantasy, that was all that mattered. You can't put a price on escape.”

“Mama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties realizing that she knew everything.”

“I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.”

“One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,’ agreed Charlotte.‘But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,’ I agreed quickly.”

“There's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there?”