We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.
Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
Real power. . . comes not from hate, but from truth.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown. ' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
Living men are bound by time. . . Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?
Don't wait the time is never just right.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.