“If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.”

“I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.”

“I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing ...”

“I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.”

“Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.”

“Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.”

“I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

“At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another's sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laughing. Lo...”

“I felt his other hand sear hot against my cheek. He bent his head, and in a voice that Jack couldnt hear, said, When you came down the stairs, and fell into me, that was the moment. Then his lips p...”

“Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.”

“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”

“An author who integrates alien signs into the medial surface of his own textssigns behind which we presume the existence of other powerful, submedial subjects as authorsdoes not increase the compre...”

“You're into what you're into, I'm into what I'm into. We don't have to be into the same shit, and if you're safe, sane, and happy, then go on and get you some.”