“What he never counted on was me and the degree to which your mother’s purity would affect you. (Menyara)You’re so full of shit, Menyara, you ought to be a cow pasture. (Nick)”

“you're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure”

“Don’t touch the baby, Mennie.” – Acheron“Now I know you didn’t just come at me with your attitude, Mr. High And Might Atlantean God. Believe you me, if there’s one thing I know how to do it’s birth nonhuman infants. Been doing it since before even your old ass was born.” – Menyara”

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

“Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the sound of it.He wasn't quite as pleased with his own. No matter how hard he tried to hide his accent, it always came out in certain words like "praline", "etouffee", "pecan", and any time he lost his temper. You could easily tell how mad he was by how Cajun he sounded. And if he started spewing all Cajun words, duck.”

“By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even bysimplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention,purity in the affection.”