“There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.”

“Synthetic chocolate sounds wrong.”

“That sounded sweet enough to almost be intelligent, but it was chauvinistic as hell.”

“She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.”

“It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together.”

“You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.”

“You can’t walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies on honey.”