How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?