“But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.”

“Annas conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, a...”

“There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.”

“Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought”

“Anna loved and didnt love sex. Anna needed and didnt need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.”

“It doesnt matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”

“The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.”