You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

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.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.