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“Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.”
Source : "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Gemma Arterton interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk. 
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“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”
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“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
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“The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.”
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“I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of personal distress is so soothing because one has the ease of knowing that one's secrets will not be repeated to anyone. Yet there are those who are horrified that an animal can be a more reliable part of one's world than that of the human world.”
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“Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.”
Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
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“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown
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“He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.”
Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing
