“One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.”

“For the love of mercy, I cannot walk into mediation with a swollen vagina, Cash. Please.I smile against her thigh, rubbing my scratchy face against the softness of her skin.Is that what Im doing? I...”

“So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.”

“How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”