“It's truly amazing what a good screw can do for your outlook, I thought.”

“I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't.""The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.”

“For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.”

“Better to be screwed physically than financially.”

“My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.”

“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”

“What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.”