There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.