But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.