“You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified.I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.”

“She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.”

“Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile."Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.”

“...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.”

“Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula ”

“Who is the madder,’ Osman the clown whispered into hisbullock's ear as he groomed it in its small byre, ‘the madwoman,or the fool who loves the madwoman?’ The bullock didn't reply.‘Maybe we should have stayed untouchable,’ Osman continued. ‘A compulsory ocean sounds worse than a forbidden well.’ And thebullock nodded, twice for yes, boom, boom.”