“Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.”

“The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself ...”

“Impatience kills quickly.”

“We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in ...”

“Let me feel how thy pulses beat.”

“Jesus Christ! A man could only take so much. She yelped as he snatched her up around the waist and sat her on the counter. Sit there and dont move. Dont bat your eyes. Dont lick your lips. Dont get...”

“It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a pot...”