“A teen stripper amputee emerges from the curtains with a pasty on the end of her “nub””

“capable of loving beyond the categories of sexuality and gender”

“why do we break each other? Is it like cutting hair off dolls?”

“a faith in all things punk, in a city set to destroy itself”

“Either elaborate or eliminate.”

“a possibly better way of being a person, without sacrificing the fart jokes”

“playful and eccentric, there is always an underlying darkness”

“That was better than therapy”

“The writing is pretty terrific even as the sex gets tedious”

“the context of our lives wrapped up in the bow of fiction”

“Havok dedicates so much of the book to scrupulously describing sex”

“she felt a weird lump and it caused her a lot of concern”

“He’s prone to castigating the present literary generation’s hipster-laden irony”

“an experience in which all phenomena and every character is questionable”

“trying to piece together the mosaic of their shared lives”