Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

A dove carries peace on its wings.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.

We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?