“There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.”

“Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.”

“You have always been my only muse. I cannot paint or sculpt. I have only my words to render your likeness. Sometimes I wish I were both God and Adam so I could tear out my rib and create you from m...”

“Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.”

“Hurt but do not harm? Zach asked. Whats the difference? Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Nora sipped her mineral water delicately. Harm is a bruise on the inside. If youre a masochist, pain feels l...”

“I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”

“Fear can be a potent aphrodisiac.”

“When the power of the shift rips the human body apart and transforms it into its new shape, there lives a second, less than a second, a mere shimmer of time when the mind is without a home, no body...”

“He moves suddenly so that his hand is cupping my sex, and one of his fingers sinks slowly into me. His other arm holds me firmly in place around my waist. This is mine, he whispers aggressively. Al...”

“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”

“An author who integrates alien signs into the medial surface of his own textssigns behind which we presume the existence of other powerful, submedial subjects as authorsdoes not increase the compre...”

“You're into what you're into, I'm into what I'm into. We don't have to be into the same shit, and if you're safe, sane, and happy, then go on and get you some.”