"When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything."

“There are women whose love only ends with death.”

“I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.”

“Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.”

“The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.”

“When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”

“The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away”

“I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.”

Source : Helen Garner (2011). “Monkey Grip”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.”