“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over...”

“But he wont let the pain blot out the humor no moren hell let the humor blot out the pain.”

“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”

“It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?”

“I been silent so long now its gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is ...”

“I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....”

“They told me exactly how it worked, the marketing of it. Our target market was always going to be young teenage girls, because boys are into sports, and they like buying jerseys and caps and so on,...”

“the desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.”

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”