“What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.”

“The measure of a man is his silence. The measure of a woman is her elocution. Beware of an overly talkative man and an inordinately silent woman.”

“No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different man." His green eyes were breathtaking in their intensity. His thumb brushed her bottom lip. "Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.”

“There are a million ways to lose someone you love.”

“The most powerful magic of all is choice.”

“Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.”

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”

“I keep stars in my pockets wear daisies in my hair but I tuck you tenderly in the folds of my heart and take you everywhere.”