Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won’t notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.