He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.