It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man.

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Nona needs a very dry martini.

Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

You know, Hope is also rather interesting, there's just not two of her, Dad teased Nona

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Had I just made a date with a tatted up bat wielding miscreant?

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

Europe is a collection of free countries.

Love yourself no matter what!

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

At my best I was as good as anyone.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.