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

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

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

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

What better place to kill time than a library?

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.