“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“Something snapped inside her. Of course Im afraid! Relationships do bad things to me. He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didnt want to hear it. You know what I wan...”

“Colin : Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.Sugar Beth : Well, that sure does leave me out.Colin : Exactly. With agreeable women, Im unendingly considerat...”

“[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.”

“Hed lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and shed been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.”

“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.”

“Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie”

“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”

“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. ...”

“My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.”

“I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.”