“It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.”

“Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance.”

“I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfe...”

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.”

“This was now officially the most inane conversation in which Griff had ever been a participantand that included a drunken debate with Del over ostrich racing.The color isnt too awful? She twisted a...”

“Dont. Dont play that game. His brow pressed to hers. When I heard you cry out ... it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.”

“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”

“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.”

“Mirrors are the essence of movies.”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”