I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you're scared, do something.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.

Never undermine the power of intuition.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.