“Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have sc...”

“All the best women are married, yes, they are - to all the worst men' There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but she went on rapidly 'So I shall never marry you. How should I marry a kind ma...”

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.”

“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")”

“Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (The Wife Of Ted Wickham)”

“Holiness was always something richly dim.”

“There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step int...”

“You, Faery Man, are wonderful.”

“Iron. Ice.A Love Doomed From the Start”

“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The w...”

“Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning.”

“Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree”