“Don’t you find that a terribly romantic idea? Love stealing in to overtake two people who’d believe they were merely friends?”

“Even two people who are no more than friends by daylight can fell prey to the influence of a secret dark room.”

“I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.”

“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?”

“Love makes us all do unaccountable things.”

“Some men there were who know how to look at a lady, and make her feel she'd been seen. Or perhaps there was no question of knowing how. Some men just looked at ladies that way. [...] Tell me what absorbs you so, such a man might say. I wonder at your thoughts. He might even guess. It's to do with cards, isn't it?”

“Honor is the best part of you, Will Blackshear. And I don't make that pronoucement lightly. No woman could, who's ever seen you naked.”