“At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there.”

“We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.”

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”

“Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.”

“There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart. Out of the old country, a brand-new tribe, dancing to new tunes around a bucket of fire in a vacant lot.”

“All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?”

“You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.”