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

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

I can't take his genius any more.

When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.