“I live in an ocean of smell”

“The very air they breathed was almost a juice.”

“At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be b...”

“Its life. You dont figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”

“the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”

“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boatslet you know if youre off course. But it aint always possible”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”

“The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.”

“The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.”