Moriah Jovan > Quotes

“She just gave your IQ a blow job and she's not even here.”
― Moriah Jovan, The Proviso

“Never underestimate the commercial value of mental illness.”
― Moriah Jovan, The Proviso

“I can't be on too long before I have to stop. If she hadn't left, you'd both be home right now.”

Victoria’s brow wrinkled.

“I don’t understand.”

“You take energy from people, from crowds, and you expend more. For you, when you’re on, you run like a German engine, no?”

“Right.”

“When you go home after the party’s over and you haven’t had enough attention, you miss it. You crave more.”

“Right.”

“I don’t take in energy like that. People take energy from me. I can be social, I can be on, but I go home for silence and solitude, not because it’s time for the party to end. I don’t want to hear another person’s voice for three days so I can recharge. Like a battery.”
― Moriah Jovan, Paso Doble

“I didn't go into prostitution because I was desperate. I did it because I was bored.”
― Moriah Jovan, Magdalene

“I’m a simple man,” Jack said clearly, Lydia’s hands in his, his eyes never leaving hers. “I like meaningless sex, McDonald’s, fart jokes, Dumb and Dumber, and Top Forty hits I’ll forget a week after they drop off the charts. I cuss like a sailor and I’m an uncultured swine. I don’t slow down, a Tigger in an Eeyore world. But somehow … Somehow, I met—”
― Moriah Jovan, Black Jack

“Why is it up to me to shepherd a man’s—any man’s—hormones?”
― Moriah Jovan, Paso Doble