“Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of ...”

“Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.”

“It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.”

“Michelle felt that if people didnt like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.”

“You cant get lost if you have nowhere to be.”

“It is so hard for a queer person to become an adult. Deprived of the markers of life's passage, they lolled about in a neverland dreamworld. They didn't get married. They didn't have children. They...”

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

“This should never have happened, Brishen. We were unimportant, you and I. We weren't supposed to mean anything to anyone.""Woman of day," he said slowly. "You mean everything to me.”

“Aku percaya, tak pernah ada kata salah untuk cinta.”