"It will be like the end of time when the Queen dies."

"Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards...and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven."

"Will you, laying aside all partiality, consider in the silence of your thoughts that we are creatures either quite like the rest , or separated by no great difference? For what is there to show that w…"

"Our philosophy is to use what is good from the past to create a future which is better. But these pages are not an introduction to an easy, sheltered life. No country has an inherited right to wealth …"

"When you see the ridgepoles of the impressive houses in Heian-kyo competing to rise above one another--dwellings of people of high status or of low--they look like they might stand for generations, bu…"