Shhh,” he murmured against her mouth. “Don’t talk. Don’t think. Just feel.

A garden always has a point.

Shh,” he whispered. “You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.

Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

Will ye come with me?” he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn't know when the next one was coming.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.