And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.

I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.

Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe, ” Perrotte said.

You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.

Forgiveness is not death. It is life.

Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.)

I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

All perfection is melancholy.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

I have my own strength.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.