It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.