“The Providence granted me with the ability to think, and thinking unveiled to me that, sadly, there was no providence.”

“The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear's youth.”

“Husbands are the leftovers of a stew called love –she thought—, and with hair on their faces.”

“Falling in love is partial love, an artifact. —he said.— What I feel is an infatuation with a penetrating desire to possess.”

“Some commit slow suicide with the sweet poison of their memories.”

“Brevity is a sublime talent.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a lit...”