“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”

“The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.”

“I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”

“The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.”

“My arms would be wrapped around him like angels’ wings.”

“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.”

“She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.”

“But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.”

“All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.”

“Hate was the other side of love, wasn’t it? That’s what passion was like with her—to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We traveled to heaven and hell together. Earth wasn’t in the picture, and that was a problem.”

“You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.”