They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of today could get dolled up like faggots to go out in public.

When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It's like when people would make mixtapes and say, 'Here are the songs I think you should know.'

I tend to be slightly fastidious in the company I keep. As a woman, you almost need to be.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.