Shh,” he whispered. “You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?

A garden always has a point.

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.

Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

Will ye come with me?” he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.

I'd rather be underappreciate, and under worked, than over appreciate and over worked.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.