“She knew that sex was a means of getting ahead and saw nothing wrong in exploiting male weaknesses for her own purposes.”

“Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women’s collective dating history.”

“Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.”

“It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.”

“She stole my first kiss, first love and all those first things, which are remembered just because they’ve never been before”

“Everyone‟s got a story and everyone thinks theirs is worth telling and worth listening to.”

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.”

“But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonge...”

“Master your mind and you'll master the world around you.”

“Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely.”

“Broken hearts mend but souls forever fight the battle.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”