“They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different”

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

“Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.”

“There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.”

“It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

“his blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books.”