"We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season."

“Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.”

“The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.”

“I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.”

“Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.”

“Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.”

“A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.”

“To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.”

“The devil never gave a gift for free.”

Source : Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster