“We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.”

“There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires I am so afraid of what comes next”

“We have babies because we want them to love us, to make us important, but the only make us tired and fat and stinking of spit up because they're babies, not saviors. Their fathers leave us, sick of crap and sour milk, sweatpants and tears. But the babies still need all of us, only there isn't anything left to give because we based our worth on the lowlifes who knocked us up and around. So our babies end up screwed up and screwed with because not we're single again, too, so we're bringing home guys who secretly like pink satin baby skin more than our silvery stretch marks. We don't see what we should see because having anyone is till supposedly better than being alone.”

“Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.”

“Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family.”

“It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.”

“I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure -- hunger, thirst, shelter -- and they didn't mind leftovers.”