“Life will have its perils, but the bonding of the heart, when it is given, is precious.”

“In some marriages a wife might defer to her husband too much, but sisters rarely omitted a brother's necessary education on one's rightful ease in life.”

“Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.”

“Life is such good thing, you learn and at the same time you get close to god the most precious love. I love you god!”

“There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.”

“More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.”

“There comes a time in every scoundrel’s life when he catches a glimpse of what he might have been. Only if he catches it in the reflection of the right woman’s eye, is there hope for reform. —From The Dulcet Duke”