Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

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.

I want to bask deeply in the taste of his blood, in that flowing crimson filled with his feelings melted in it...

Don’t swear at your past

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

With knowing comes caring.

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.