Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.