“She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.”

“Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar. ”

“He was soppy! He went along with everything! I'd say what about this or what about that, and he'd always say yes. It didn't matter what I said. It was always the same answer. He gave into everything. You can't have that in a man. I like people to stand up for themselves. They've got to have their own opinion, know their own mind. I could tell it was going nowhere. I couldn't be with him. We weren't right for each other. When I broke it off, he was baffled and broken. He cried and asked how he'd wronged me. But he hadn't done anything wrong; he just wasn't the right one”

“Don't fool yourself that they don't know. You might not admit that the sun exists, but it exists anyway.”

“I think you're really nice""I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement.”

“The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering”

“This is what I will do from now; I will hurt you.”