Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

The reward is in the risk.

The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.