I hurt him again. I meant to pretend to love him, but in the moment I simply told the truth, which is my habit. And I don't know that I want to change that habit. You can tell a lie now and then. But what happens to you when you try to live your whole life inside a lie?

When he offered to annul the marriage, he realized now, he had been half-hoping that she'd refuse, that she'd insist that she wanted to be his wife. Instead, h…

She focused completely, almost smolderingly, on Ruth. But there was a sense of amusement in everything she said. A sense of irony. I know something you don't k…

Don't you love her? This beauty, this bright and powerful woman?

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

'There are a few of us -madmen all! -who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to ligh…

...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that th…