Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

I have learned the power of surviving.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

One never gets the same summer twice.