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

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.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

He existed in his own terms and I followed it without hesitation.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am alone and they are everyone, " I thought–and pondered.

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

You're my home." -Travis Maddox

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.

You see in the photograph what you are.