“It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.”

“God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?”

“A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.”

“LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you.”

“Looking for who I am is who I am.”

“takes a devil to make a decent angel.”

“The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.”