Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.