I believe in blessings,” he replied, against my temple, “I believe that for every curse, there is a blessing.

Knowledge can be a dangerous thing – ” “Not as dangerous as ignorance.

I think Shakespeare is everybody’s treasure.

Of course, I always knew I was Romeo, but I had never thought much about Giulietta before. Now I started thinking about her, and I realized that it was a very strange thing to be Romeo, when there is no Giulietta in the world. Strange and lonely.

We are the Amazons” said Myrina.“We are the killers of beasts and men. Wild ourselves, we inhabit the wild places. Freedom courses in our blood, and death whispers at the tip of our arrows. We fear nothing, fear runs from us. Try to stop us, and you will feel our rage.

It didn’t really matter that we couldn’t understand each other, what mattered were those little smiles and nods that said so much more than words.

What’s rule number two?” Granny stopped, her hands on the back of a chair, and looked straight at me. “Always make sure,” she said, slowly, to ensure I paid attention, “that they underestimate you. That is the key.

In her exquisite handwriting, Eva Maria anticipated that her clothes might not fit me perfectly. But, she concluded, it was better than running around naked.

My consolation – is that, in one short month, you gave Paris more love than most people find in a lifetime. He was as happy as a man could be, he told me so himself. No grumpy old age for him, wondering why the pleasures of the world had passed him by. Although young, he had his fill, and he knew it.

I will say to you what the scientists say about the small particles in the universe: I can’t show you where they are, I can only show you where they were.