“There's no need for us to talk. That's how it's like with us. We talk without speaking.”

“There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way.”

“That's one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we can all talk about when we don't want to talk about ourselves.”

“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

“If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.”

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”