“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”

“I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.”

“She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise 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.”

“One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.”

“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”

“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”