Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn...

If you can’t do it, don’t pledge to do it. Don’t be a liar; say only what you can do. It’s better for you to have a “single sentence” manifesto about your life which is...

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

George’s hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen’s suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds....

I would like to see you come undone.When you’re laughing so hardthat your eyes crinkle at the cornersand your hand comes up to cover your mouth,like you’re trying to conceal a secret.When you are overcome...

…the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone...