“What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?”
“Some Churches are heated and cooled 365 days a year. As homeless soldiers lay in alleys and bushes quite near.”
“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”
“Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.”
“My Chicken can do a special trick!"And what is that?"She can lay an egg!"And what's so special about THAT?!"Well, Can YOU lay an egg?”
“I manage to hold the poker face when she submits to dominance, to the summons, and swans into my arms, pressing her quivering form against mine when she embraces me.”