“All pain must be faced and embraced as the true countenance of your beloved All fear must be met and recognized as the thrill of tasting the unknowable All joy must be surrendered and acknowledged as a gift with no giver”

“One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”

“Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return.”

“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.”

“Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.”

“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.”