“...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...”

“The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smile, so apparently pleased to see the Judas again that Ranulf half-expected him to announce that a fatted calf had been killed in his honor.”

“It felt like he'd been starved for sunshine and had now been deprived the chance of standing in its warmth.”

“Now that's the sort of love Richard had always been looking for, enduring, defying obstacles, reciprocated.”

“Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again”

“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”