“Even if we aren't having sex with out boyfriends, it's still easy to find our identify in them in an unhealthy way.”

“If you want people to become really creative in finding new ways to do something, tell them it's illegal or unhealthy.”

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print.”

“We are having hot lesbian sex... and by sex we mean tea but it's still hot.”

“The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague.”

“Many people have gotten lost out there and never found again. It's easy to get disoriented with nothing but white around you, even easier to freeze to death trying to find your way back.”