“Just ’cause there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean there’s not a fire inside.”

“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”

“I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older – until I drop dead of beauty.”

“That’s what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly attract a man like him. It shouldn’t upset her because it was true. She couldn’t. Not in this world, in this lifetime. Yet she didn’t appreciated everyone else acting as if they were the most improbable twosome since Quasimodo hit on Esmeralda.”

“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”

“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.”

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.”

“For she had eyes and chose me.”