“With the weight of four thousand years of cannibalism bearing down upon me, even if I was once innocent how can I now face real humans?”

“It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.”

“Baby, bein’ seriously serious, you are the only thing in four years that has come close to getting me to a place where I can even begin to think I might be able to bear those flames.”

“I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?”

“A thousand years from now, even if I was never reborn, people would remember me: Ana Incarnate”

“I can't say Ah now?""No," I say sternly."Even if it's purely innocent? A genuine Ah? Not even that?" He makes a pleading face. It looks silly on him; he's never been the pleading type.He bats his cinnamon lashes once. "Not even ..."I try not to laugh.He keeps the face going and ”