“I knew my box of paints, stored away on the bedroom shelf of my small house across the ocean, could never create such colors.”
“...I understand what my body's for. My bosom is as deep as all the oceans and my hips as wide as the fields...”
“I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.”
“What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.”
“He tethered me to him, my magnetic north, while my mind went here or there. I always knew. Somehow I always knew.”