“The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.”

“There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.”

“We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.”

“You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious.”

“Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.”

“Rain spat at him, and he looked up, thinking that alone was the way to be, because alone meant you were in charge of what could get to you and what you could keep out.”

“...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.”