“Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.”

“I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.”

“Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?”

“If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.”

“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”

“Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.”

“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in clean water in the sunshine...”

“The love for God is the love to protect the environment.”

“When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.”

“The love for nature is the well-spring of life.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”