It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching...and that's just my house. Imagine what it would be like here.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?