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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.

In that moment, feeling my isolation in a way I never had before, I thought about calling her. But I didn't want to hear the fear and disappointment in her voice. I didn't want to deal with her...

Eating together is an occasion that humans have made into a peacemaking ritual;

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

If poor doomed Olly's a Radio 4 play, what am I? You, Hugo, she kisses my earlobe, are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you'd stumble across on TV at night. You know you'll regret it in the...

showing his gratitude.

Like true friends, they take no hearty or elegant stance loosely choreographed from some broad perspective. They get right in there and mutter "Jesus Christ!" and shake their heads.

"I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them,' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. All my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are...

You know, no one ever appreciates you until you're gone.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.