“do you or don't you know the two worlds I'm talking about,the world that doesn't existwhere you wish you could beon the dirt road that stretches out of Idahoaway from the cave and family?The girl you want lives there. All my life I've wanted to be the grand gesturethat forces the mouth open in disbelief Instead I was the lamp cord, collecting dust and never moving.It's easy to be the destroyed one.”

“Who isn't interesting enough to help -- what forgotten woman sits in a lawn chair in her yard with a can of soda pressed to her thigh, and the radio blaring the death toll of Texans, who were victims of a record heat wave? Whose inner voice sits quiet like an obedient dog and never says, go go go.I want to go places I've never beenBecause I haven't failed there yet. So you can understand a little better,How a disgruntled waitress might pack her dogAnd a few belongings and head for a townShe dreamed of, searching for something to breakThe spell of monotonous, morbid night speak.”

“The daughter wants to turn the past on its back like a turtle or a roach, leaving those legs walking futilely through air cheering on those starved and paralyzed years. The mother put her makeup on, got ready for work, while cigarettes burned down, one by one in the chipped, red ashtray. The daughter stood beside the blaring alarm clock and shook the mother's sleeping body who worked sixteen hours a day and called the daughter and son from pay phones between jobs. When the mother found the daughter on the lawn of the mental hospital playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star on her harmonica the mother couldn't believe it, because she was gone the years that led to it. When they finally came together, they came together as guilty mother and guilty daughter and found there was nothing there to trade.”

“Lots of people hate gay people.You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate gay people.”

“YOLO means You Only Live Once, so instead of using it as an expression to do whatever you want, use it as an expression to live life right, because you only get one chance at life.”

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”

“Every person who comes into this world must make the decision as to what type of person they want to be. Establishing yourself once is not enough. It's an ongoing, constant effort to separate yourself from who you feel that you are, and from who you want to become.”