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

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.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

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

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.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

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