Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.