“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.”

“Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.”

“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”

“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”

“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”

“If you lose a man because you thought the best but were all wrong, then that's his fault. If you lose him because you thought the very worst and were wrong, then that's yours. And there's nothing so sad as missing out on love for lack of a little faith.”

“I did not want His cold love. I wanted human love—clasping, selfish, and hot. I wanted to smell the rank sweat of the men… I wanted love—reeking, drunken, hungry love.”