It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.