“She looks honestly upset, but then, Ive learned that I cant read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume theyre always lying.”

“Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”

“He feels the need to hear a human voicea fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lionhis idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”

“Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?”

“He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”

“Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the ...”

“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument ...”

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.”