“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”

“Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that ha perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able to judge...If you can take upon yourself the crime of the criminal your heart is judging, take it at once, suffer for him yourself, and let him go without reproach.”

“I blame Jeb for letting you be such asmart aleck.”I stared at her. “I blame you for alteringmy DNA! I mean, I have wings,lady! What were you thinking?”

“I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils”

“If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know them not and never wish to know them.”

“You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.”