Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.