the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.
It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.
I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness