I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.