"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands."
"Every since I realized there was someone called a colored girl, an evil woman, a bitch, or a nag; I’ve been trying not to be that and leave bitterness in someone else’s cup."
"She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary."