“So she becomes, like all females deprived of a mate, predatory and exacting.”

“Huey was something else. Huey was out of sight. He knew how to do it. Huey was ten motherfuckers.”

“It is our lot to take what we have, make of it what we will. We are meant to finger the leftovers, rock our old dolls, clutch wooden angels to our breasts.”

“Truly, Francesca, if all women were like you, I would become a Turk solely for the purpose of assembling a harem.”

“If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”

“Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.”

“Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.”