“You think you've forgotten how to dream," he said, "but really...you're just waiting for the right dream.”

“All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives, she said. Wanting simple things with tangled hearts.”

“All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives,” she said. “Wanting simple things with tangled hearts.”

“I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.”

“I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.”

“I didn't know if it was possible to kick someone hard enough to knock the cocky out of 'em, but for Rowan I was willing to try.”

“Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Child...”

“Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the ...”

“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.”