There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Quite definitely a Bingley

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it's going to a great cause. We'll see how many masks I'll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I'll hold onto them.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.