It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high, ' he said.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

You love me or not... I know only to love you all.

Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters

The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.