“You’re candy to her. Something sweet, but nonessential.”

“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.”

“Weight gains aren't failures they're learning curves.”

“I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..”

“For the record, I want to be anywhere you are," he murmured in her ear, so close he might as well have run his tongue along it.”