“Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.”

“Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!...You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.”

“Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?”

“- It's been going so well. We have a wonderful time in class, and I can feel the chemistry between you.- That's because it's chemistry class.”

“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”

“I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.”