Only the hopeless love God.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.