“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”

“I was also one of those people who hadnt caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in...”

“They werent like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”

“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.”

“I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.”

“Wed been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool sto...”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”