And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Ginés, who was neither grateful nor well-principled,...

I don't believe in witches, but there are, there are.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then...

I don't believe this. How can he not want to go to the Savoy? God, it's all right for top businessmen, isn't it? Free champagne, yawn, yawn. Goody bags, yet another party, yawn, how tedious and dull.

So, says Jack at at last...you broke up with Connor.Wow. So we're straight to the point. So, I reply defiantly. You decided to stay.Yes, well..., I thought I might take a closer look at some of the...

I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and...

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it.

I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young...

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them...

He'd done his walls with paint from Holy Basil. God, I yearned for their colors. I hadn't been able to afford them myself but I knew their color chart like the back of my hand. His hall was done in...

My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in...

No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it.But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it?Frame it?Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug-and the lights go out!

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

No way that was a act. She really is that gullible. She really is dumb as a sack of moondust.Yet very sweet.Eve rolled her eyes toward him. I think you have to have a penis to get that impression.

How does hanky-panky translate to sex? Who comes up with words like that?" "Probably people who don't have sex

Two different primaries, she continued, striding around the office. Two different cops, and both of them fucked up the case. What are they using to train them in Chicago -- old videos of the Three...