“And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.”

“No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. We’re simple souls like that, aren’t we?”

“Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?”

“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it,” Harry answered. “It’s a methodology.”

“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”

“in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible”

“The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.”

“Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.”

“I think Im very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”