“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”

“Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?”

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”

“You live in your head too much, you curl up and shut shit out and spend so much time doing it, you forget to live your life. You can’t live your life in your head. That isn’t living.”

“A shrill whistle scratched out of the dank cloud surrounding him. A second soon followed.„Two freighters are doing a whistle pass,“ Betty said behind him. „Is that how you intend to leave this, Gabriel? You and Mr. Harris were but two lonely hearts conducting a whistle pass through the fog of your lives?”