“I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.”

“Were you there?She shook her head. No. I was here in Nain having achild.Then why do you weep as though you had part in hiscrucifixion? You had no part in it.Id like nothing better than to think I w...”

“Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.”

“Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.”

“What does the body matter if the soul is dead?”

“The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.”

“I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.”

“Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.”

“When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.”

“There comes a point when you win, and you can either soothe the loser into thinking there was something in it for them or kick them while they're down to make sure they know what just happened.”

“Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinar...”

“He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves...”

“Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.”

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”

“I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.”