“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”

“Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.”

“She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.”

“All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.”

“I once knew a man who said death smiles at us all,A man can only smile back”

“My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.”