“Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...”

“If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away”

“You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”

“I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”

“Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.”

“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”

“He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.”