"If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark."

“Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.”

“But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”

“I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.”

Source : Maureen Lipman (2013). “Past-It Notes”, p.149, JR Books Limited

“They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2012). “The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.89, Penguin

“I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."”

“Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.”

“I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours”

“And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.”