“There is no such thing as a fallen woman--you just need to look for the man who pushed her.”

“I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.”

“Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.”

“I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.”

“You talk about Cal, you look like a woman who's talkin' about the man she needs to breathe.”

“When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.”