“I think if love is real, and headed toward the altar, the sex part-within reason-can wait.”

“They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.”

“I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.”

“Love is just another word for sex.”

“Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.”

“Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time”

“I don’t belong here. I know that. But I don’t belong anywhere else, either. And that is at the heart of the black depression pressing down on me, flattening me. I have no place. No home. Sex, but no real affection. I am kept, but not cherished.”