“They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe.”
“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”
“A lie to the faithless is merely a conversation in their language. ”
“We used to spend hours talking. We never got tired of talking, never raun out of topics - novels, the world, scenery, language. Our conversations were more open and intimate than ane lovers'.”
“The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.”
“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”