“But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.”

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom?”

“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”

“Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.”

“Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.”

“Was there to be some healing after all?Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.”

“But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.”