To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne St. Clair Subject: So . . . Does that mean I can call you now?

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.

Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.

There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.

You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.

So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.