In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

When one is in love one thinks only of one.

The biggest mistake people make in life is trying to be someone else. They never find themselves, so they never love themselves. Instead they find somebody else who they like a lot and try to be them.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom. They always put me in a bad mood.

Some friend of yours, perhaps? "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors."

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

I know what this is.

Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what...

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

Suicide does help; it helps make you realize that people care about you and they need you in life.

We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to...

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of...

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

... finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

She rebuked herself for this thought. she was, she saw, always having thoughts for which she rebuked herself. It then flashed across her mind that the thoughts for which she rebuked herself almost...

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others

Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart.

There once were four sisters Who were exceptionally ordinary, But desired more than a maiden should desire Ravaged by their shameful wants Their loving hearts never bloomed Instead four wicked...

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our...

If there's one thing I've still got, it's my memory. Which is too bad. Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a...

Look into my eyes and deny me.

A warmth spread throughout Keirah's body, in part from the closeness of Kathel, but mostly because she knew that he had meant Wharick. Kathel hadn't even spoken Wharick's name, but at the very...

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.