“I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!”

“I think you would prefer to be happy in your choice,to make your first marriage be your only marriage."Maria was right,of course. Going from marriage to marriage was not much different than going from man to man. Anastasia,at least,didn't see much difference in the two.She saw love as lasting forever. Anything less could not really be love.”

“It would take a year before the answers to those questions became clear, but much longer to realize that it was too easy to pick up a man's dream, his measure of the world, rather than fashion one of my own.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“You're imagining things. Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind. -Rose Hathaway”

“It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.”