Maria Edgeworth

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.