I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

It takes a lot of doing to die.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.