Isa K.

“[...]you learn how much space there is between the way you want to be seen, the way you feel inside, and the way other people see you. How divorced our sense of self often is from who we really are.”

“The most important thing to remember is that the safe word is for the client; you bring mace.”

“You thought giving a depressed prostitute a copy of Pretty Woman might help?”

“Initiation. What he meant was hazing. [...] Bonding and brotherhood were always the excuses, but more often it was about humiliation and channeling sexual frustrations into perverse games of dominance.”

“If you’re gay how come you don’t dress better?”. . .“I’m undercover,” he answered. "Obviously. I’m reporting back tonight on how best to attack the heterosexual hockey male demographic.”

“This is a completely heterosexual bro-hug that I offer in a totally nongay way to all my hockey brothers.”

“He wants rough, hard, violent, dangerous sex. He craves it. We could psychoanalyze this all night, but I doubt it would do any good. Logan can no more justify his attraction to a smack across the face than I can explain how empty life feels without waterproof kohl liner.”