All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.