Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.

Let's be real. Like I would date someone who didn't go out of their way to be my nemesis." - Shane Carver (The Carver's Magic)

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.