They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...

Do you know something? I've got this funny feeling fate arranged for you to enter my life for the express purpose of tormenting me.

Next minute you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong, ’ he said softly. ‘One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they’re hiding huge grievances.

All I got was the news that he'd married an absolute honey, and an admonition to eat my heart out.

That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

‎Old enough to kill means old enough to die

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.