You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.

It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

You seem to think you have a choice, " Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on."-Leo

Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you.

Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.