A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her

Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.