“You're a dream. Like everything else.”

“It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get. But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will ne...”

“Death always wins.”

“You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone elses dream who is, themselves, someone elses.”

“Isobel moved farther into the kitchen, not knowing whether to be relieved that her mother hadn't had an atomic meltdown, or mortified that she'd taken it upon herself to play head chef with the nea...”

“The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

“I keep telling myselfThat yourejust a girl.Another leaf blown across my pathDestined to pass onAnd shrivel into yourselfLike all the others.Yet despite my venomYou refuse to witherOr fade.You remai...”

“She wanted to touch him, to throw her arms around him but something held her back. Maybe it was the fear that her arms would pass right through him, that she would have come all this way only to f...”