Quotes

One learns so much about a person when one merely wants to fuck him.

(and I’m now certain that his occasional trips out of town were to court the woman who would become his embittered Versace-wearing donna).

Enough time awake, our skin begins to crawl with insects, centipedes and butterflies alighting, itching, fluttering, inching. Our ears ring with the voices of the dead or the detested. Our eyes see apparitional flashes of ghosties and beasties, exploding shafts of light and shifting landscapes; we can’t trust our hands to hold that shuddering

of attention is an implicitly erotic state, and I spread my exotic wings under the students’ bland collective gaze.

couldn’t hug me. Not only could it betray the secret of our carnal past, but as an Orthodox Jew, Marco couldn’t touch women who weren’t family.

More than once, I considered just letting that gay cat out of the rainbow bag, but even a psychopath like me has some compunction when it comes to the mental health of her baby brother.

chewing each bite thoughtfully and completely, lavishing every

There’s a lot to be said for intimidating intelligence and a dearth of conscience, and I possess both.

And then, my breath caught in reverence, I watched as his eyes grew blank with ethereal suddenness.