“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. ”

“Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”

“I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. ”

“I like it when people actually come, but I love it when they go.”

“I am wrapped round with phrases, like damp straw; I glow, phosphorescent.”