All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.