“It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.”

“You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.”

“You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.”

“It's funny how these days, when every household has its own inter-continental ballistic missile, you hardly even think about them. . . . A lot of us, though, have started painting the missiles different colors, even decorating them with our own designs, like butterflies or stenciled flowers. They take up so much space in the backyard, they might as well look nice, and the government leaflets don't say that you have to use the paint they supply.”

“So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.”

“So what do you do for a living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.”