“At the same time, something older and more mature within her—for we all have several beings of different ages coexisting peacefully within us, from the child we were once to the old person we will become—that bit of her that was already old and wise recognized how her love would survive once she had lost her instinct to defend her wounded pride.“

“"Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here," she said to herself. "It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid. Of course, there is the children's health…” and she bent automatically to kiss Nanette's forehead.””