“Just because it’s forbidden doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”

“ --- she says it’s a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don’t know why they do ‘em.”from the novella Christopher O’Connor’s Romances”

“One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.”

“Love is a lot like humanity, neither one is perfect. I’d spent years obsessing over perfection. I’d spent years living inside a bubble thinking that perfection equals love,but it doesn’t. It’s not love unless it’s messy and wild and flawed because nothing real is perfect.”

“The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don’t see themselves as competitive.”

“Everyone is a loser. Winners are just losers with more patience.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”