But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.