More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. “No more bullshit,” he said against her lips. “I want you. I think I’ve always wanted you.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.