It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Careless talk costs lives.

We are a sensational team.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

Keep on dreaming. Keep on believing. It is free. And it is a choice.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

If you fail to pay your bill by 9 AM tomorrow morning your service will be discontinued.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.