“My panties were still on but he didnt let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devo...”

“I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and Ive accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. And I love you anyway remember?”

“Every bride is beautiful. Its like newborn babies or puppies. They cant help it.”

“Fuck me, I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madness.”

“Sometimes theres no cure for the crazy. Dale sighed, stroking my hair. I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe thats the cure.”

“I looked at him like a stranger, someone Id never seen before, and he looked at me like Id been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.”

“As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rule...”

“when you come to a show do you feel the same thing that i feel when im on that stage? i mean, i know youre not standing on the stage but surely you can feel the same energy that im feeling, to some...”

“And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs. So if you see a good live show on drugs an...”

“My friends joke that Im dead until I get onstage. Im dead right now as youre speaking to me.”

“I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

“She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchr...”

“This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it take...”

“He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.”

“And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that...”