Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.

The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Sometimes when you win, you think you're going to get everything to go your way.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

A bad boy can be very good for a girl.

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.