“I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.”

“My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.”

“There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.”

“I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.”

“Its one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.”

“What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“Don't Run For Success, Practice Perfection.”

“Spontaneity is great when the opportunity is there, but what I'm really saying is you need to trust yourself. Instead of checking and rechecking your camera and the lighting and everything else, ju...”

“What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight.”