“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

“Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?'This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.”

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.”

“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”