This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

I have decided not to die.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.