“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

“It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”

“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”

“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume tha...”

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that prec...”