“This was the first time since I’d startedworking there that I hadn’t received a look of all-out disgust or, at the very least, a snarkycomment, and all it had taken was a SWAT team of New York fashion editors, acollection of Parisian hair and makeup stylists, and a hefty selection of the world’s finestand most expensive clothing.”

“(About her first job as a fashion model in New York...) It was mostly hats. I was too short and my breasts were too big, so any fantasies I had about modeling in New York literally went to my head. I wore hats.”

“If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.”

“Sheets, towels and blankets surrounded Travis. He had fashioned a soft pallet to sleep on while I expelled the fifteen shots of tequila I’d consumed the night before. Travis had held my hair out of the toilet, and sat with me all night.”

“I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.”

“That night had been the first time I’d felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel…normal. It was then that I realized I’d risk anything to feel that way all the time—and most days, I did.”