“You smell pretty tasty.Just what every girl wants to hear.”

“You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”

“Hell, Cal. You're a monster that mothers threaten their children with and you're still as touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”

“Pete squeezed Jack's hand, hard as she could. "You're not alone," she told him. "If you've made up your mind to die, then I'll be with you here, until the end. I'd follow you into death if that's what you asked, Jack. Heaven, Hell. Anywhere at all.”

“I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.”

“So what, we get in a big ring and poke each other with sticks while alien lizard men look on?”

“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.”