She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high, ' he said.

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.

Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

What do you want from me?” – Nick “Normally, it’d be your life and your soul. Unfortunately, I can’t take either right now. Sucks to be me today.” – Death

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

Exercise is overrated.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?