One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.

I love books, they're in my blood.

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.

Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them

He is my vulnerability

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off."Mac: "The child?" I gasped

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

Silence is like a flame, you see?