“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”

“Are we all on the same page, Delilah?The same page? I don't even think we're even in the same library, but no need to bring that up.”

“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”

“For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.”

“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they could not find at home, and women who fell in love with the wrong person and waited for the arrival of their beloved for so long that a year was no different from a single day. The same thing was happening to me. Years were passing. I was already a woman, and I still wasn't done reading.”