A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE—be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM.

Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

My heart died a while back. [Eragon]

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.