It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

People don't take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you're a 19-year-old girl.