There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

Love rarely waits for permission.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.