“What men yearn for they often destroy.”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”

“He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.”

“She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.”

“Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.”

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out. Sometimes it almost seemed as if they were thinking one thing and talking about something else completely, and you didn't know what to believe: the thing they said or the thing they didn't.”

“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”