no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

Success ... seems to be connected with action.

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.