"Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortuna..."
- Susan Griffin
"Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure."
- Honoré de Balzac