“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”

“Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.”

“This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child tosleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist intoaction. The most passive person is actually an aggressor.”

“This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.”

“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.”

“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.”

“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.”