Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour of plums.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world

as was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.