"Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman."

“Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.”

“My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.”

“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.38, Macmillan

“Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?”

“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.”

“Xbox has been created by gamers for gamers.”

“It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.”

“Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.”