I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

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

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

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

If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

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.