We women adore failures. They lean on us.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
History is only gossip.
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.