“After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said --The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.And somehow I'm still alive.”
“You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.”
“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.”
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
“Do I look like I want to be eaten alive after sex?”
“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”