I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or...

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Poor men ... always make love better than those who are rich, because, having less to care about, and not being puffed up with their own consequence, they are not so selfish and think much more of the...

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puffed the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.

This might not mean much to you right now, but for what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better than most. Life isn't black and white. People aren't either. Family, friends, lovers. It's all a...

Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.

I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to...

Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.

It hurts when you realize you aren't as important to someone as you thought you were. Deep inside where nothing's fine, I've lost my mind.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness. It is power.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men - to their neighbour, as they are forever saying with all the baseness of false sentiment - when in fact it is...

Some people are like "the great wall of china", you can't reach them.

Now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple compromise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone...

Nothin' baby. You just get close too quickly because you've got a big heart and you want a big love.

Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.

Losing your co - remember meant losing the memory itself.

He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot at again - and then throw...

Love, and you shall be loved.

She'd been imagining for the last fifteen or more years that if you disappeared, if you abandoned a wife and child, you did so for a better life: more happiness, more sex, more money, more of whatever...

The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.

I don't like people. They fuck me up.