“He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Niles and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was l...”

“Not one fuckin thing gentlemanly about protecting whats yours. Looks like youre gonna lose it, you do everything you can to stop that from happening. Max looked back to Niles. And you didnt do that...”

“I looked to the ceiling and told God, God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.”

“I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.”

“You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think.”

“How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to ...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”