“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”

“He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.”

“She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part […]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.”

“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.”

“She committed suicide…
"Why?"
"She often told me, she was frightened of getting old."”

“Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?
Is she pretty on the inside?
Is she pretty from the back?
Slutkiss girls, won't you water her rack?
Is she pretty on the inside?
Is she pretty from the back?
Slutkiss girl, molasses, rot blackstrap
Is she rotten on the inside
Is she ugly, ugly from the back?”

“A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.”

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

“Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.”

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”