“By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)”
“Crying is really bad for your vocal cords”
“My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.”
“The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.”
“The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.”
“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]”