“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
“My luggage was in the dirt."I raised my eyebrows innocently. "Oh, it must have fallen out." Like your brains.”
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”
“I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love.”