a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

It’s not love when you don’t feel some pain, Sophie...”Zarah to Sophia, The Forest of Evergreen: Found in the Wilderness

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

The world is crammed with delightful things