“He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.”

“England is surrounded by enemies—by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

“She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.”

“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”

“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”

“[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.”

“He loved her enough to know she was better off without him”

“I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.”

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”