Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.