“We are just a few atoms In the vast universe, stardust, Yet who can measure the sum Of two lovers and what's between us”

“Silence is the cousin of invisibility.”

“His eyes are somewhere between gray and blue, and his hair is somewhere between brown and blond, and I am somewhere between hostile and attracted.”

“All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.”

“He was aware that darkness could take root in pristine gardens, and even good men could fall to shadow.”

“This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people around the grief-stricken, of course, the idea that there are right things to say and wrong things and it's better to say nothing than something clumsy.”

“If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.”

“I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.”