Jamie came back to the apartment one night to find her spreading a viscous fluid onto a canvas. It was threaded wtih blood. 'Good God,' he said. 'What the hell is that?' Pia didn't bother to look up but continued to knead the clear slime across the canvas. 'It's my new piece.' 'But what is it?' He kept pointing. He'd never seen something so disgusting in his life. And her hands were completely in it. 'It's Jodie's placenta. She gave it to me. I'm going to tack it up and let it dry on this canvas. Then I'm gonna glue-gun pictures of dead fetuses onto Lucite and make them the centerpeice.' 'Uh huh.' She raised her sticky hands to him. 'It's about women, you know? The way that the world opresses them, all right? And it's about babies, and . . . I don't know . . . I just got the placenta today.' 'Wow, that's wow . . . That's . . .' No words for this. He scratched his chin as she spread her hands in a concentric motion across the canvas. 'So, do you really think anyone's gonna want to put that up on their wall when it's done?' he asked. She scowled, displeased.

We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.

This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;.

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect.

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

A man who lacks understanding is susceptible to deception.

The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does !

We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.