No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never...

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she’d sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.