“Her memories of now-dead happy times crept through her mind like assassins.  They killed the present, destroyed living time, shutting life into a closet of motionless air from which all oxygen had been used.”
“She was a woman who possessed a man.  Her rampant sexuality combined with a sweetness and a directness were so formidable as […]

“If life is choices we make, as my mother once told me, then too much of life is spent bemoaning these choices.  Too much time is wasted on regret.  We can do nothing with the past but acknowledge and accept it.  It is over.  Done with.  It is gone.”
This isn’t so much the sort of […]

The characters were faily unsympathetic.  I didn’t especially like any of them,  but I liked the book all right.
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“He went back to his stirring.  How seductive was that little remark?  ‘I usually have drinking chocolate!’  They’d be using that to lure people on to porn sites on the internet!  Who could resist?  Irritated with herself, she decided to postpone her plans until the cocoa was actually in her hands, then she could look […]

This book came free with a magazine,  which I bought because it came with a free book.  I love that magazines give you free gifts for buying them here! 
It made me laugh,  the stories the main character comes up with,  the incredible lies are quite clever.  Nothing even close to brilliant this book,  but […]