“Neighbor… was that the word for "whoring tramp" nowadays?”
“Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing.”
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.”
“I must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.”
“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied.”
“...he called me whore, slut, bitch…all the beautiful ugly words that secretly thrilled me.”