“If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.”

“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”

“I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.”

“Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?”

“The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.”

“I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.”

“Are you sure this is a good idea?’ I ask.‘No,’ says Amber. ‘Let’s do it.”