She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

Fate bring two people togetherand it is love's job t o keep them there.

Life is short break the rules.forgive quickly, kiss slowly love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile...

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.

It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

I never sleep well when I'm on call.

Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track. (Dark City Lights)

The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)

We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.

At least a hospital stay will give him an excuse to halt the job hunt.

The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.

Everyone loves a goddamned trainwreck, after all.

Cigarette smoke when i didn't ask for it. Never when I did.

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)