Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

This soup tastes like windows

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.