Stephanie’s Reviews > Miss Bishop > Status Update

"In the first place, everyone isn't entitled to happiness, not at the expense of someone else. Happiness gained that way ceases to be happiness."

Life does not appear to arrange itself into definite periods at the time one is living those years. It is only when a woman looks back upon it from the hilltop of maturity that she is able to say, "That was the period of my darkest sorrow," or, "Those were the years of my uncertainty."

"I am weaving at a loom with a spindle of hopes and dreams. And no matter, Mother, how lovely the pattern - no matter how many gorgeous colors I use, - always the center of it is ... you know, ... just a little house in a garden and red firelight ... and the man I love ... and children ... and happiness. For me, Mother, that's the end of all dreaming."