“- What are those?- Teeth. Wood.- But w...- I like to bite them back.”

“When you get kicked in the teeth, chew on it: don't bite back.”

“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

“She found the page, cleared her throat and began to read, " 'There was nary a doubt that I had ever seen such big ones, round and ripe. My teeth ached to bite them' " God, what tripe! ”

“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.”