“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”

“He used to say to his melancholia patients:
"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.”

“My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.”

“My Mama would never have to work another day of her life.”

“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

“My grandmother used to say
before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses
make sure you're not on about the muck on your own

her glasses were filthy”

“Hither and thither spins
The wind-borne mirroring soul,
A thousand glimpses wins,
And never sees a whole.”

“You grew up, we grew up B. C. Before crack. That's just saying it all. You understand? You don't have parents… You have young kids, fourteen, coming home and their mama is smoking out, going to their best friend to get the product.”