“If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?”

“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”

“There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.”

“Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing . . .”

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

“The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void.”

“History is written by the victors.”