“A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)”

“And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)”

“Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all. You are no cripple with those fine limbs." Whether he was the son of an emperor or the child of an intrigue, was he not a child of the heavens and the earth?”

“Dale: What are you doing?!?Brennan: I'm burying you.Dale: [crying] I'm alive Brennan, I'm alive.Brennan: You're waking the neighbors! Shut up!”

“He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet”

“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”