“I never said I didn't want to marry. It just didn't happen-Iam not the sort of lady a man chooses to marry, for I am too plain and too serious. Now I am reconciled to being on my own.”

“I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.”

“I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.”

“I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.”

“I have a bed and enough to eat and kind people about me. God is still with me. For these things I am grateful and have no reason to complain”

“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her”

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”