“His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.”
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
“No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.”
“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”