“Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.”

“People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.”

“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”

“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.”

“because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.”

“A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.”

“But she’s your daughter!” “You think I don’t know that?” Donna Mitchell’s dark eyes, so like Allison’t own, drilled into her. “But I don’t do her any favors if I keep enabling her. I’m not going to rescue Lindsay from the consequences of her own self-destructive behavior anymore. The last time she was here, I told her if she left that was it. And she still did.”