"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

“There is Nothing Like a Dame.”

“Life's hard, Love's harder.”

Source : C. C. Hunter (2012). “Taken at Dusk: A Shadow Falls Novel”, p.100, St. Martin's Griffin

“By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.”

“If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.367, Random House

“What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.”

Source : 1806 Leonora, letter 1.

“The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!”

“I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.”

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”