I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?