“We teach our girls how not to get raped with a sense of doom, a sense that we are fighting a losing battle. When I was writing this novel, friend after friend came to me telling me of something tha...”

“I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.”

“They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.”

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”

“Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.”

“After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used ...”

“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”

“Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.”