“I will need more than this, O God. If you love me as Aneaxi said, please send me something to go on. Something soon.”

“Please, God, send me something to adore.”

“Will you relax?" Oz said. "Trust me, you're going to love it.""Whenever you smile like that, it means something bad is about to happen.""O ye of little faith.”

“I want you to make love to me. I want to go to your room, your bed, be under you, feel you inside me, see your eyes, feel your body and know…we're together. I don't know if that's love or just need, but I know I need you. I need that with you. I need what I've never known and I need it from you. Only you. And it may destroy everything or build something. I really don't know. I just know…Please make love to me.”

“I’m always buried in something. But I love you. I try to listen to what’s going on. If you need me, just—bring in a bucket of water, or something. Well, not water around the computers. Maybe a cattle prod. No. Not around the computers . . ..” “Ice,” I said. “Down the back.”

“I once sacrificed something I love for the God I love even more, and He has never forgotten me for it.”