“Love is like a chilly wind. You are unlikely to tell when it started and when it's going to end.”

“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

“You did not go through everything you've gone through just to end up in the same place you were when you started.”

“I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.”

“When first the world from chaos rose,
Tell me, how did love begin?
The wind and moonlight first did love compose.”

“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”

“When you start getting into the process of writing, then the characters start coming alive. And then they tell you what to write.”

“This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.”