“She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.”

“She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.”

“Its not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, Okay, world, today Im gonna spaz.”

“We didnt want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.”

“A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.”

“Using ones beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least thats how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a t...”

“It wasnt as if shed thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasnt always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.”

“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”

“Dont give people what they want, give them what they need.”

“The problem of the world is that it needs silence... compassion and passion. Once it's found, the world will be changed.”

“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage ...”