“We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.”

“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.”

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”

“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.”

“Their young live were over, too, except they had to die everyday while still breathing.”

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

“I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.”