Henry: Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded
by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas
"I believe the only way to get through this life is laughing,
mostly at myself."
Danielle: If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directy in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
Philip Pullman
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any courser like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Emily Dickinson
Leonardo da Vinci: I know that a life without love is no life at all.
Danielle: A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they
live?
Leonardo da Vinci: Then I shall have to make you wings.
“Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.”
J.R.R. Tolkien quotes
"Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory." — Gail Carson Levine: The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas
