Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion