“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”

“We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.”

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”

“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.”

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

“I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.”

“Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”

“He feels the need to hear a human voicea fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lionhis idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”

“Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?”

“He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”

“Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the ...”

“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument ...”

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.”