Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.

Li, a willowy manboy with a shock of black hair atop a mouthful of bad teeth was the brother-in-law he had introduced to industrial espionage several years back. Rong often regretted that.

For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.

what's real within the story is real within the story

I had a dream about you the other day. I woke up and realized it was just a dream.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.