"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."

"[In a letter] Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become a…"

"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…"