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.

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.

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.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

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

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.