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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.

Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit.

If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

She make me beg for it until she give it up

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.