Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.

That's interesting, " Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.

I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.