“I want to drink you and then f*ck your corpse for three days!”

“If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.”

“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”

“Want! You must want something. What do you want?”

“Somehow it felt familiar, an old story retold, the claws in my shoulder, my arms twisted behind my back, the drag down the street, Will assisting my father and thinking how much fun it was to hunt someone down. I knew it all. Each snarled command was a line from an old but faithless song. “Pipe down! I’m not going to hurt you! I just want to talk to you! This is for your own good!”

“We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.”

“I seem to recall Trinity kicking your ass a time or two, Acari Loren. Easy enough with such a wide target."I hated stooping to such ridiculously adolescent taunts, but sometimes you needed to speak the native tongue.”