Its easier to forget a thing without a name. I’ve learned to guard my affections.” “I know, you’ve never asked mine.” - Alice Borchardt

Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

For when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity