“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.”

“How many lovers did a person need, anyway?”

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

“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'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”