The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.