“Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.”

“For you will be dead much longer than you will be alive. And you will have all that time to remember everything that was your life, even if no one else does. So you had better find something worth remembering and just leave it at that.”

“A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.”

“Do what you like, like what you do...”

“Everyone’s perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.”

“Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?”

“A shrug. "I wanted to make sure you were taken care of, just in case."She had perhaps a moment, before the valet came. A moment in which to try and relate a truth so deeply ingrained, it came to her lips like second nature. "Dar.. " A breath. "If anything ever happened to you, there wouldn't be enough money in the world to patch the hole it would leave in me.”