“Odd, said Miss Pettigrew conversationally, 'the undermining effect of flowers on a woman's common sense.”

“To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.”

“There is nothing more powerful in the world than a naked woman.”

“And not there, not there, not there,Your laughing face and your wind-blown hairLeave not even a ghost in the garden.”

“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.”

“By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.”

“Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time…rather, it’s about treating your mind as you would a private garden and being as careful as possible about what you introduce and allow to grow there.”