They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

You are freaking me out!" she said with a nervous laugh. "Who are you, and what have you done with Quinn Shaughnessy?

I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

I think you learn to live with the pain of miscarrying. The open wound heals and becomes a scar. Not as raw, but always there. A part of you- your heart.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.