“Dont think about the past,think about the future.”

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”

“You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure.”

“Fearlessly accept the reality; then fearlessly set about transforming what needs to change.”

“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”

“After the masquerade, if we had found each other, if I had asked it of you, would you have taken me as your lover?”She closed her eyes, but it only made her more acutely aware of his hands moving down to caress her arms. She couldn’t think. Why did he ask? Would a lie be kinder than the truth? Everything was blurring.“Yes.”

“A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”