Nina Malkin

“Love is blue. A clear cerulean when new. A bright, bold, true blue in its glorious throes. And when it hurts, as it inevitably will, love turns deep, dark, the color of a bad bruise.”

“Love at first sight must be glorious. I wouldn’t know, since at first there was no sight. Smell, yeah — the tangy, salty scent of horses. Plenty of other sensations too. But I’ll get to that. The point I want to make up front is that by the time I laid eyes on Sinclair Youngblood Powers — in the flesh, that is — I was already in love with him. Nothing could change that. Not even the fact that he was dead." ~ Dice”

“I sang from my belly, from my intricate system of female parts, and from those sacs inside me that wouldn't show up on an ultrasound but held all the rocks and stones and broken glass of want and need I'd managed to collect in seventeen years.”

“Look, Candida, I don't want to pee on your picnic...”

“You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.”

“Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house.”

“This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the porch and it rattles a floor board in the attic. -Dice (Swoon)”

“The best listeners listen between the lines.”

“You are my life, but you are not my purpose.”

“I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.”