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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

For though to let loose the bridle to lusts, while our opinions are against such things, is bad; yet, to sin, and plead a toleration so to do, is worse. The one stumbles beholders accidentally, the other pleads them into the snare.

My love is my business; it has nothing to do with you. You love me, and that isn't personal. You tell the story that I am this, or I am that, and you fall in love with your story. What do I have to do with it? I am here for your perception, as if I had a choice. I am your story, no more and no less. You have never met me. No one has ever met anyone.

Jesus' coming was such a radical event because previously satan had enjoyed almost unlimited power here on Earth.

Cute. Who is she?" "The devil." "Really. I thought the devil would be taller.

I updrive a Bronco. How environmentally irresponsible of you.

The reality of this wide-eyed caramel-coloured wonder was arresting. This was the future, alive and kicking in my arms.

Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.

The movies have always shown how elemental passions boil beneath the thin veneer of civilization.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist's.

To show my revulsion, I jumped on the tea table several times and pretended it was an accident when I knocked the phone off the hook so that there couldn't be any incoming calls.

After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom.

Candace Bushnell

Sebastian (Se-bastard) is a Scorpio..

But there are so many unspoken rules for navigating high school - for navigating life, maybe - that I can't help but try to figure out which one I broke to get myself into this situation.... There are so many rules for girls.

She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.

Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.

Don't be silly, my dear. Threats are only meaningful if you have the power to execute them. And you, my dear, do not.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

On entering Southern California, the excursion trains made special stops to permit the tourists to visit Smiley Heights in Redlands, to lunch at the Mission Inn.

doggerel to describe her experience in the Whitewater contretemps:

Shreave flicked away the dead mosquito. Don't these things carry the bird flu too? No Boyd, that would be a bird.

He paused and manufactured a chuckle.