“Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.”

“Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.”

“Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.”

“The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.”

“We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.”

“Even prisoners can escape if they have books.”

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are fac...”

“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”

“Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.”

“It's too late.I chose life too late.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”