“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”

“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”

“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.”

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”

“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”

“There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.”

“It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order ...”

“You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena”