“My story would satisfy Desi's craving for ruined women -- I was now the most damaged of them all.”

“Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.”

“How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.”

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

“For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.”

“Now would all the waves were women, then I'd drown, and chassée with them evermore!”