“Beauty is momentary in the mind --The fitful tracing of a portal;But in the flesh it is immortal.The body dies; the body's beauty lives.So evenings die, in their green going,A wave, interminably flowing.”

“Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.”

“Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish smell of flesh that is torn open and over which blood is pouring. It was his flesh, their flesh, lying about still alive, but dying, dying so slowly, dying so fast…”

“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”

“I would do anything to keep her safe. Kill. Heal. Die. Anything. Because she was my everything- Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot”