Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high, ' he said.

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.

That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

An unknown cause is not the same as divine intervention.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.