“I'm Legs Sadovsky I'm FOXFIRE I don't fuck around with guys.”

“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

“I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.”

“I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.”

“Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.”

“HUSBAND: Is something wrong?BETHIE: Why--why do you ask?HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.”

“Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that?”