I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme