"So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got."
- Fay Weldon
"guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine"
"Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world saw it, and no..."
"Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually"
"For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it."
"She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness."
"We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would pr..."
"Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence."
"Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them."
"Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be ..."