Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence