Monica Drake, Clown Girl

"In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be."

"Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say."

"The only value of wasted time is knowledge."