“Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad,and the good stuff is out of your price range.”

“I'm going through an awkward stage. You know, the one between birth and death.”

“I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.”

“Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.”

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”

“Not just your face was changed by the knife. Your personality— the real you inside— was the price of beauty.”

“If it hadn’t been for the tequila shots at the taco stand, I’d like to think I would have turned and walked away in a state of moral indignation. But the reality was that a platoon of Marines couldn’t have kept me out of that hot tub. It was an auspicious start to an otherwise doomed relationship. I should have just enjoyed the first night of debauchery and walked away, but never one to let good sense in the way of good sex, I stuck around for the ride.”