“She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.”
“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”
“What do you want? Love. Well, love gets what she wants one way or another.”
“The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”
“And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.”
“Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”