It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I am in control at all times.

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy.