You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.