If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.