“My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)”

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara)I tried that once. (Nykyrian)And? (Kiara)Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)”

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”