“She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.”

“Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.”

“And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her.”

“Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.”

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

“She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.”

“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”