Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

She sighed. Men were a pain.

How about a kiss?”“Are you man enough to try?” she asked.

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

No matter how successful or great you become, never forget that you are nothing without the mercy of God.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Laugh as much as you can.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.