“The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.”

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

“Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.”

“Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight. -Adie, Wizard's First Rule”

“Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink.”

“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”

“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”

“How Adewen stuffed her braid in her mouth at that! Or she'd cover her mirth with her hands and shake till you'd think that the fit was upon her. She did the same too when she wept so you'd never be sure which she hid with her hands, her tears or her cackling. I think there were times she herself didn't know, nor does anyone know at times. Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.”

“It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.”

“Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.”