“It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.”

“What bothers me most about my teeth is that they dont travel loin south, dont sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata, come closah, say high.”

“Numbered are the daysof hunger stricken straysa woman's curving tastea paper police state.”

“You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really dont want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend t...”

“Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here's to drinking the ash as it falls, a...”

“Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.”

“I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.”

“How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?”

“Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more inno...”

“Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.”

“Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.”

“My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”