Alice Borchardt

"Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters"

"Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him"

"He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers"

"Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?"