How many ways does the heart take, how many reasons does it invent for itself, in order to arrive at what it wants! - Alexandre Dumas fils

It is my considered view that no one can invent fictional characters without first having made a lengthy study of people, just as it is impossible for anyone to speak a language that has not been properly mastered. Since I am not yet of an age to invent, I must make do with telling a tale.

Vous vous fermez toute carrière. Un pas de plus et vous ne pourrez plus quitter la route où vous êtes, et vous aurez, toute votre vie, le remords de votre jeunesse.

In the interest of the dictionaries of the future let me lay down the principle that the Demi-Monde, contrary to the common belief and in spite of what is printed, does not represent the ruck of courtesans, but the class of women that have lost caste.