“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.”
“Divine Revelation is God speaking. Faith is man listening.”
“Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.”
“The scent of book leather and lemons enveloped him, and his head went light. Books and clean woman. Had God ever divined a more perfect perfume?”
“A man finds good thing and favor when he finds a good wife. A woman lives in good fortune when she gets married to a good husband.”
“Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.”