“The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?”

“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperated wicked: who can know it?”

“The HEART is deceitful above all things.”

“There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.”

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”

“You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.”