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

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

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.

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

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?

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.