“Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.”

“They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.”

“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”

“Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.”

“Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.”