“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heartso hard, it hurt me.”

“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more ...”

“Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.”

“She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.”

“For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.”

“It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew away. When her breath came now upon my mouth, it came very cold. My mouth was wet, from hers. I s...”

“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.”

“Weight gains aren't failures they're learning curves.”

“I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..”

“Some call us unnatural or demons, but that doesnt change the fact that we too were human once. We have feelings; we feel pain and there is no shame in wanting to live.”

“What a waste. The woman sighed and moved away. Looking at Victoria, she rubbed her thumb and forefinger together absently. Burn him. Slowly. From the inside out.”

“Something about her reached me on a deeper level than I had ever experienced and it was frightening. It was exciting. It was dangerous.”

“What sexual preference do you hope she has? Happiness. Isnt that cool?”

“[Two respondents] minimized the assimilationist implications of the dominant account; Russ Silver rejects the idea entirely.I have no interest in being accepted. I consider this system corrupt, and...”

“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.”