“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

“Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.”

“I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip...”

“I was proud of you today, handling William Long the way you did." Her fingers stilled. "What did you think of him the first time you met him?" she asked quietly. "That he was the kind of man you should have married." "And now you don't think that anymore?" "Now, it doesn't matter. You're married to me." "I was the night you met him." Jake's eyes met and held hers in the moonlight. "No, you weren't. Not really." His arm tightened around her. "But you are now.”

“If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.”

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”