…men never forgive like women.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

…lo que cuenta a veces no es lo que se da, sino lo que se cede.

…like the Greeks, I suppose. They made a big thing of hoodwinking the Germans, until recently, of course. The Germans suddenly turned round and told the poor Greeks that the game was up. Oh dear. … I...

…let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door… —KEATS

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

…just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

…it’s my intention to clear this insula of all kinds of filth, as well as people who are vagrants, idlers, and sluggards, because I want you to know, my friends, that shiftless, lazy people are to the...

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

…it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every da...

…it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there. (p.23)

…it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn’t do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn’t.

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institut...

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

…it is far too simplistic to claim that the specter of this self-engendering monster pursuing its ends regardless of any human or environmental concern is an ideological abstraction, and to insist tha...

…it insisted to her that she was a writer, when perhaps she was only a sensitive and loving reader, a lover of literature who thought she wanted to write. I think it was the writing that killed Lilly,...

…introverts, who sometimes feel as if their propensity for problem talk makes them a drag, should know that they make it safe for others to get serious (239).

…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him—in that moment his whole disgust for humank...

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.