“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”

“This is so cool,” I said as Dad walked away. “Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?
“He’s a she,” Mom said.
“Is she hot? Cause I’m still young, you know. My sexual identity isn’t fully formed.”

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”

“Maybe there was no happily ever after […] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.”

“I don't think you understand what the word cool means…. Being cool is about not participating in traditionally enjoyable experiences and creating the illusion that happiness can be found in alternative, less enjoyable experiences. The degree to which other people around you try to emulate your alternative lifestyle and fail determines how cool you are. You're only as cool as people wish they were.”

“I prefer the term ‘sexual deviant’ myself,” Saiman said.”

“The pervert."
"He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant."
"Semantics.”

“The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.”