“There's much to be said for a good strumpet, Ned," Simon rejoined. "Indeed I think you might be sadly in need of some good, hard, thorough strumping to re-order your mind.”

“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.”

“Were you serious when you said I might win someday at Wimbledon?"Claire answered, "There's so much that's pure luck, good or bad. The weather can be terrible. We always say we should re-schedule Wimbledon and hold it in the summer!"I frowned. "Wimbledon is in the summer."Claire sighed. "It's a joke, Fiona.""Oh.”

“The biggest challenge to excellence is being good at something, because to move from good to great requires your willingness to re-think everything you’ve done that got you to be good. In fact, the very thing that got you where you are might be the very thing that stops you from going where you say you want to be.”

“What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.”

“Like sadness, frustration, happiness.They don't much go together.Sure they do. When you love people, there's always a mix like that. You think lovin's easy? It ain't. It's hart work. Awful hard work. But if you find good folks to love, it's worth all the feelin's you get from it.”