“[reading Natalie/Natasha's report on him] 'Mr. Stark displays compulsive behavior.' In my own defense, that was a week ago. 'Prone to self-destructive tendencies.' I was dying. I mean, please, aren't we all? 'Textbook narcissism?' [looks at Fury askew, who returns the look] Agreed.”— Justin Theroux, Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr., imdb.com
“When people are behaving in apparently self-destructive ways, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them, and time to start asking what happened to them.”— Dr. Robert Anda, huffingtonpost.com
“Girl split down the middle and re-sewn. Girl pulling stitches from the backs of her legs. Girl bleeding into plaster. Girl who cannot kneel in church. Girl tearing herself apart.”— Molly McCully Brown, pleiadesmag.com
“I once fucked a man who was unspeakably ugly, and it wasn’t even winter. What I mean is that I bludgeoned the palm fronds to keep from sobbing. What I mean is that I lit a kite on fire and didn’t say I was sorry.”— Erika L. Sánchez, bostonreview.net
“this lonely attracts men to my ankles, the way the drip of a mango causes fire ants to find their teeth.”— Hilda Davis, theoffingmag.com
“Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be… instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com