Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Let me go.” “I can’t”, he said hoarsely, (…)” I’ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can’t.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt