When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.