“Most of the trolls except Hulking Teeth Gnasher and Old Man Saliva left.”
“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”
“You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks”
“It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")”
“She had the kind of legs that make an old man's false teeth rattle when they're still in the glass.”
“I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days, like a salt lake. Or so he said.'('Left from Dhakeshwari')”