She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.