“Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.”

“Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.”

“It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.”

“It as mathematical, marriage, not, as one might expect, additional; it was exponential. This one man, nervous in a suite a size too small for his long, lean self, this woman, in a green lace dress ...”

“Life was rich with possibility, or life was possibly rich...She felt incandescent with the news.Cold sun. Jack in the pulpits nosing out of the still-frozen mud. Lotto lay watching the world increm...”

“Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.”

“Your fangs aren't as sharp as your tongue.”

“You can't be spontaneous within reason.”

“Truth is the first casualty of war.”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

“Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. Theres the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th...”

“Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our ...”

“Everyone has that turning point in their life, whether you are going to make it or not it will come into your life nevertheless.”

“I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.”