The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor – he worked with Gielgud – and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn’t meant to marry an actor, but she...

No relationship, Chrissy, I don’t care how truly, madly, deeply it is…No relationship survives on hope. It’s forgiveness that keeps it alive.