“When we can no longer kiss our lover with passion, we are admitting - in a blaring silence - it is over.”

“Humility is not just something we develop so we can claim to be more spiritual. It also allows you to see your actions more clearly.”

“Babe had lots of looks but gradually she got stuck in the sixties, with hairspray and long dresses and fingernails and eyeliner. She became a more intense version of women who demonstrate whiteware products on television, taller with longer, darker hair and tighter wool suits and pointier shoes. I didn’t have any money to buy clothes then. It was the first time I’d admitted it to anyone. Babe felt sorry for me and took me out shoplifting.”

“There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.”

“We don't have a single goddamn thing left to prove to anyone. We're proven. Today we play.”

“Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done”

“You, instinctively, as a girl, have very, uh, strange, supernatural, magical powers that we don't understand.”