Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Is it against the law for me to know it?

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.