“That's why you got married - to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul.”

“What has started you on this?" I asked. "We were talking about the holidays." "Los Angeles is not a safe place for a young woman alone. I feel it in my bones.""That's your arthritis, Aunt Sadie. Do you want me to get a gun? I'd probably shoot myself in the foot.""I'd rather you got married again.""That might be worse than shooting myself in the foot.”

“Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.”

“The way I see it, it's got nothing to do with all of that. It has to do with love...A person don't got a soul until that person is loved. If a mother loves her baby--wants her baby--it's got a soul from the moment she knows it's there. The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.--Diego”

“The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.”

“I'm getting married because it's time and I want to have a family." "No, that's why men get married. Women get married because they're in love.”