"If you write a story, you only have to say the word ‘castle’ and you can see the towers and the woods and the village…"

"Love is all very well, but you have to be sensible."

"[in a letter] Dear Cecilia, Please don't throw this away without reading it. As you'll have seen from the notepaper, …"

"I am very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused you. I am very, very sorry..."

"[writing] The princess was well aware of his remorseless wickedness. But that made it no easier to overcome the volum…"

"My doctor tells me I have something called vascular dementia; which is essentially a continuous series of tiny stroke…"

"[Last lines] I never made that journey to Balham. So the scene in which I confess to them is invented, imagined. And,…"

"[In a letter] My darling, Briony found my address somehow and sent a letter. The first surprise was she didn't go up …"

"[To Robbie] Come back, come back to me."

"What do you think it would feel like to be someone else?"