Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.

Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.

All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.

Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.

Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.

Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.