“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”
“Sex reincarnated that good, pure girl, but as something else.”
“Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there?”
“Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.”
“I exhale slowly, ten, nine, eight... counting backwards without meaning to, but it feels better than counting up, because at one it will be over, right?”
“A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”