I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

You never cared enough to be Black

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.