“You want to know the secret to raising good kids?Whats that? asked Thomas.High expectations.Thomas laughed. Alright, well whats the secret to a happy marriage?Clyde smiled back, but his face starte...”

“It takes a day to fall in love and a lifetime to forget.”

“Scars are something of a bodys memoir.”

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appr...”

“Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.”

“You want to know the secret to raising good kids?”“What’s that? asked Thomas.“High expectations.”Thomas laughed. “Alright, well what’s the secret to a happy marriage?”Clyde smiled back, but his fac...”

“Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happyConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.”

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love...”

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”