“Something about the look on her face makes me feel like a meal. And if I were, I’d be a happy meal, for sure.”

“You want coffees with your Happy Meals?Yes, we want coffee with our Happy Meals. It makes them more happy.”

“If I’d had any doubts about how Archer felt about me, they were eradicated when I saw the look on his face. I’d never had my spleen ripped out, but if I had, I figured I’d make the same face Archer wore now.”

“yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It’s simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn’t count or wasn’t good, and an hour later we’re back looking for something to make us feel better.”

“And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.”

“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”