“She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.”

“But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that’s become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she’s written in stone. Her “haves” being the ones she’s got and maybe not getting anymore.”

“In life, perfect pitch is the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.”

“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.”

“She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after”

“Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.”