“I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.”

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“I think I might well have a tremendous desire for you. What a thing to feel…I want to be with you. I want to access your person… you who move me in so many deep ways, new ones.”

“I want to kiss you. Not on your mouth, but on your most secret scars, your ashy black & journeyed knees, your ring finger, the trigger finger, those hands the world fears so much.”

“Any expert, observing human bodies, can see how she’s exceptional, how she ruins us all.”

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”