“But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.”

“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”

“I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have accomplished in one day?”

“Life is made up of only one thing: the now. The past and the future could be considered dreams, if only they were as real. At least a dream is in the now.”

“I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.”

“he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly exaggerated. for the world was made each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more”