“All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.”

“The memories were strange clingy things like burrs knotted in his hair. He could choose to let them be, he only felt them when he pulled them, and he could pretend they weren't there like positioni...”

“When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.”

“It was late morning when he woke and found the telephone beside his bed in the hotel tolling frantically, and remembered that he had left word to be called at eleven. Sloane was snoring heavily, hi...”

“Staring over him in the dim light of a side lamp, my tired eyes traced along the path of faint, yet emerging, lines etched around his equally-tired eyes. They'd become a permanent reminder of his e...”

“I love you. I trust you and... I want to be your human canvas!”

“Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct maybe I was just in denial. I just dont get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all o...”