Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

You are not your mind. You don’t have to believe the lies it tells you about yourself.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.