“And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?”

“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes.”

“If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.”

“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”

“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”

“But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.”