“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

“Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”

“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”

“I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase.”

“You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.”

“You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.”

“Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.”