“We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.”
“What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?”
“This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.”
“And what does that signify to you?" he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.”
“...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world.”
“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”