“The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.”
“We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.”
“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
“I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.”
“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”
“You don't smoke do you?""No, why?""They're afraid of fire.""Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…”