I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari. "Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly. "We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?" "Don't trouble yourself.