"He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air."

“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”

“The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.”

“The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.31

“The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.”

“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

“The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.”

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction”

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Source : "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.