“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
“Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow.”
“Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.”
“But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That's the strongest love there is in the world, and it's the deadliest. There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
“Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.”
“Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.”