There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.