“Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth.”

“I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“A lie is not the absence of truth, but the illusion of truth.”

“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.”

“Words lie. Blood doesn't.”

“The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.”