“Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.”

“I had been on a whole lot of folks' prayer lists and God had known for years my address was still 111 Unlucky-in-LOve-Avenue.”

“We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.”

“I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.”

“I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.”

“I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.”

“What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.”