“How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.”

“I need nothingI have everything I needI lie upon the coffina doughnut in my hand”

“Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.”

“Several notes were missing. They had always been missing, except for two that I had levered out with a poker when three...The anticipated thrill of a missing G or an E Flat was like a good joke, told again and again, always fresh. I believe that my present feeling for silences and emptinesses dates from those sing-songs, the awaited non-note on the beat.”

“The veins stood out on her angry temples like wormcasts.”

“I was just another stupid girl waiting for Prince Charming to give me true love's first kiss, and I hated myself for it.”

“I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.”