"This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart."
"Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone."
"A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history."
"I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves."
"I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston."
"Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill."
"The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off."