Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance.

It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see your

Her, ” he said. “I’ll take her.

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

That’s the funny thing about guns

slow down, oh sweet tearsflowing nectar...down my lashes' tipssomedaysomeone will kiss you away, even before you can reach my lips.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

I have seven different jewels for my piercing. Every day I wear a different one, according to the clothes I am wearing.

It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real privilege to get back together with people.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.