He bowed over her hand and kissed the knuckles. He'd never despised a glove more in his life.

Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is.

You are no more responsible for what that man said than I am. You cannot take the blame for another's actions.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.

With every enemy, when you get closer you understand much more, or the picture dissolves.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).