Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.