“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.”

“His sniff rips a new piece off my heart.”

“Tickling is one of the most wonderful forms of erotic, pleasurable, and satisfying FUN that two consenting Lovers can enjoy.”

“He was going to rip Plott apart, piece by piece.”

“In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”

“I was too busy destroying my life to bother with a minor detail like contractual obligation. I had veins to blow. A child to ignore. Friends to rip off. An apartment I hated on sight to pay for and move into.”