“If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.”

“I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”

“We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.”

“He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.”

“Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight”