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We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us.

And so he drifted back to London ... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another

How dare he give her no opportunity to ignore him?

You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.

there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.

There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [ ... ]

Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.

more annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille

We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.

But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.

The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.
But which half did they mean?

We can all be hurt.

I prefer to think of marriage as an equality of give and take.

There is no kindness in money.

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo.
It just simply was.

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

[ ... ] a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.

If he ever grew to understand himself, Hugo decided, it would be a miracle of the first order. Not

The ladies perhaps had the advantage in the sheer size of

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.

Insults are only really effective," she said, "when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter

But all through life, it seems, we have to learn and relearn the lesson of loving people unconditionally, no matter what.

But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

Life was not easy. And what an earth-shatteringly original observation that was.

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

Why say something," he asked her, "if your words mean nothing?

Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

We sighted people are often neglectful of the power of sound.

Guilt can eat away at you and destroy the future as well as the past.

Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too

Miss Blanche Heyward, opera dancer, would have made a superlative drill sergeant if she had just been a man.

A funny thing, love. It was not always, or even mostly, a sexual thing.

Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[ ... ]

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again.

Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the same way.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.

Suffering can kill. Not always physically. But it can kill dreams and it can deaden hope and the will to live.

Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at
heart.

No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers.

But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.

Forever is not granted to any of us," the duchess said. "Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment.

It's this idea that success changes you as a person ... I've never seen my career that way.

Still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

Rapists do not deserve to live." And

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Unguarded moment she pictured herself waltzing with Viscount Whitleaf,

Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.

Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.

After you have broken my heart and left me, I will remember that we are always and ever connected.

You really love me?" she asked wistfully.
"The devil!" he exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. "Did I forget to say it? The thing I came to say?

...but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it.

Living in a house with a large library," she said, "is a little like living in heaven

Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.

It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

But hell need not be eternal unless one chooses to make it so.

Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.

I will love you all my life and even beyond that," he said. "You will always be my only love.

He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.

But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

Leave love to take its course.

Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?

How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again.

with a cluster of other servants.

It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.

There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.

Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.

Ah, these double meanings," she said. "Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was.

That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know.

Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.

Dreams are wishes that will in all probability never come true. (Sophie)

Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came.

He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude?

He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place.
And forever different.

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?

Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.