In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

For it must be very lonely being dead.

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

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.