“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”

“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”

“I am the one whose loveovercomes you, already with youwhen you think to call my name.”

“Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense -- last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.”

“A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.”

“Jen said some guy asked you but you didn't want to go. Why not?"I shrug. "I have this character flaw? Called dignity?”

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”