“we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.”

“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”

“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”

“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”

“The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.”

“No, Mr Redmayne, not my tears. Although I've read that letter every day for the past eight months, those tears were not shed by me, but by the man who wrote them. He knew how much I loved him. We would have made a life together even if we could only spend one day a month with each other. I'd have been happy to wait twenty years, more, in the hope that I would eventually be allowed to spend the rest of my life with the only man I'll ever love. I adored Danny from the day I met him, and no one will ever take his place.”

“With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor”