“I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.”

“I love you, Maggie May Young. Always and forever.” And then my mouth touched hers and I felt my future begin.”

“I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.”

“Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.”

“Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value”

“But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.”