“Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.”

“She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it?”

“But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.”

“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”

“And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.”

“Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.”

“When you are in love- everything is romantic”