“I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. ”

“I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and no close friends. It was perhaps in reaction against the inevitable loneliness of my life that...”

“Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hop...”

“I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they...”

“Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in th...”

“Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”

“As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spr...”

“Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia”

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will ...”

“Nunca habra sido capaz de decrselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo deca a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de es...”

“If only these walls could talkthe world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyones a liar.”

“Trust can lead to disappointment.”