"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."