“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”

“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”

“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eye...”

“She knew Paul D was adding something to her lifesomething she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearab...”

“Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.”

“More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”