“Splendid . . . a novel for anyone who has a sharp eye and ear for life.”

“Bob poured and brought two cups over, hardly rattling them on the saucers. "Drink up. This should restore your inner bitch." Bailey scowled at him. "See?" he said. "It's working already, and all you've had is fumes.”

“Never trust anyone who uses the word party as a verb but never trust anyone who would rather be grammatically correct than to party.”

“When Willie was a baby, he used to look into the soft almond eyes of his black-gold mother and in those reflecting mirrors of life and the world, he saw that the earth was a splendid lovely planet.”

“...Gabrielle and Elaine seemed to hit it off by talking books — something trending about a very young billionaire and his obsession with an even younger woman...and sex. Lots of erotic sex scenes in the book like apparently on every page...Who has time? Why even read about sex in a book when you can have it instead? I don't get that. And billionaires in their twenties? I mentally shook my head and pretended to care. I'm such a bastard.”

“I tried to drown the pain away but my pain learned how to swim...”

“Manage me, I'm a messTurn a page, I'm a book half unreadI wanna be laughed at, laughed with just becauseI wanna feel weightless and that should be enough”