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

She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so

Pleasure wouldn’t exist without the sharp bite of pain. Even the brief flash of orgasm is too intense to be absolutely pleasurable

There’s no sense crying over what can’t be changed” “that’s what people cry over, things they can’t change”