Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you. - John Fowles

As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

I know what it's like when people go away. It's agony for a week, then painful for a week, then you begin to forget, and then it seems as it never happened, it happened to someone else, and you start shrugging. You say, dingo, it's life, that's the way the things are. Stupid things like that. As if you haven't really lost something for ever.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.