I think if you left grownups to do what the really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone

I knew [her] better than any living soul. Better than she knew herself. So I knew right then, long before she understood it herself, that she was in love with …

I'm not the kind of woman that has affairs' That is such pure, high-minded sounding bullshit, my love, my darling, thou object of my erotic imaginations. You a…

No one had known him. No one knows me. No one knows who I am or what I can do.

Anything you see in me is in you. If you want to see a vicious killer, that's who you'll see, do you understand that? If you see me as your brother, that's wha…

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?

Now my weary lips I close; Leave me, leave me to repose!