DEAR MAMA, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. Every time I try to write to you and Papa I realize I’m not saying the things that are in my heart. That would be O.K., if I loved you any less tha...
C’mon, let’s go join those tedious people.
Numbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.
You don’t have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.
The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved...
The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.
Small world, huh?She grinned lewdly. Not particularly. I’d say you’ve just run out of material.
She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.
Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly
Don't listen when they scoffThat you are too old and I am young,For I am old enough to know betterAnd you are young enough not to care.
The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later....
I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..
And this was what bothered him about owning a VCR. If that cowboy was yours for the taking—yours at the flip of a switch—what was to stop you from abandoning human contact altogether? He
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
Men and women, both straight and gay, who don’t consider sexuality in measuring the worth of another human being. These aren’t radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little ol...
If you’re going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don’t you think?
What about San Francisco?What about it?Did you like it?She shrugged. It was O.K.Just O.K.?She laughed. Good God!What?You're all alike here.How so? he asked.You demand adoration for the place. You're n...
Well … everything gets old after a while. I personally get a little sick of wrecking my liver at The Lion for the privilege of tricking with some guy whose lover is in L.A. for the weekend.