Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

Action is character.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

Everything that begins, begins with blood.