“The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.”

“Colin: I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.Hassan: Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”

“Having a voice that made my skin feel more like skin.”

“I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”

“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.”

“I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.”

“Stupid human voices always ruining everything.”