“She has been let off because she is a Tory.”

“Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”

“Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady… cleans up… dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so… Monday. Right?”

“She's fragile because you let her be fragile.”

“Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look…" Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt.
"Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please.”

“Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.”

“She would gladly have been more to him than she could be — because she felt (she did not deny it to herself) that she would sooner have been his wife than Leonard's. But why, because they could not be all to one another, must they be as nothing?”

“Most people would say that she's beautiful.
-That's because she's been with most people.”

“Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?”

“Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.”