“Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older."...”

“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”

“Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”

“Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”

“Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.”

“I hurt myself, Syren bit out. I make myself bleed and it feels good. It eases the pressure inside me, but it never lasts for long. His lips trembled. Before I slept in your bed, Id never had a full...”

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you dont expect anything, you dont get disappointed.”

“I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.”

“I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.”

“It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was...”

“Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.”