If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means—it may put me on my guard—at least, it may be something to live for.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Dance through life flinging kindness like shimmering rainbows. Find your bliss by sharing your heart.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I haven't stopped working since I was 10.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.