“One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams. ”

“Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.”

“Your face is a secret. Hiss, Hiss.”

“The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.”

“I swear,if she were a cat she'd be hissing.”

“He hissed and rocked his hips into her. “You like to bite?”“I’m a cat, aren’t I?”

“Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!”