After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.