“Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust. She leaned forward. Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. ...”

“I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

“There was a saying that the strength of a mans steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had...”

“You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.”

“And you are the girl's bitch, forever.”

“He gave me a message for you. She tightened her lips as if the words soured her mouth.What is it?That you are in his blood.I looked down at the deck to hide the answering surge within my own blood....”

“Work will drive you crazy if you let it.”

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whi...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”