“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”

“when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!”

“Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.”

“you are unimportant to the important!”

“you had to have happiness to miss happiness!”

“sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!”

“Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.”