“A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It s human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind! ( The Doomed Man )”
“Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she d ever had the bad fortune to meet.”
“Katja kneeled in the Parisian streets, shaking and weak from the pain in her head and heart. It had come a second ago—a vague vision from another decade, nearly forgotten by its sender and screaming with emotional turmoil. And only moments after she‟d fed. In the now decrepit walls of a place she once knew, she stared down at a child in despair. In the room where a man breathed his last and a young woman‟s sorrow grew, he lay weeping in a rage only the heart of all sorrow can know. Death and fear came off of him in waves as lightning shared the secret of the man inside the child—the man who would be her beginning and her end if she allowed it.”
“Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought!”
“A woman should be mindful that the key to one man s heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.”
“In elke man schuilt de vrouw die hij graag aan zijn zijde heeft.”
“If Frailty, thy name is woman , Frailty must be a man named as woman”
“There wasn t a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.”
“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you ve shared food, or whom you ve slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”
“When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman s desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”
“Gli uomini veri impazziscono per le ragazze che sanno dire di no. Gli stupidi si accontentano delle facili.”
“There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.”
“In every man s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
“Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.”
“Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.”
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
“(On having being just proposed to) Have you been thinking of this for long? she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally. Let s say it crept up on me, he suggested lightly. That didn t sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.”