It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.