“To hell with memory. It was like feeling around in basket of apples only to be confronted by a snake.”

“On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.”

“They say that time is the greatest healer, but let me tell you this: there are some things that can never be healed. Sometimes you think these things are gone and can never hurt you again - like a snake in a basket - quite safe, until you take off the lid. I have taken the lid off the basket, and the snake still bites. Its fangs are long and sharp.”

“I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”

“i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.”

“Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket.”