Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.

This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

It could be kindness. Faith felt hollow at the thought. She had needed kindness before, and has received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.

Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire

In silence, I hear the music of your heart.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated. It's a weird kind of vicious circle.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.