“Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.”
— Sierra Simone
“Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?”
— Sierra Simone
“The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me”
— Sierra Simone
“A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I’ve seen”
— Sierra Simone
“I cared about her as a person, as a soul, and I wanted to fuck her, and that was the recipe for something much worse than carnal sin. It was a recipe for falling in love.”
— Sierra Simone
“We weren’t ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation – why were we so afraid of sex?”
— Sierra Simone