“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.They taught me I had a language in heavenand another language on earth.”

“You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.”

“Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.”

“I taught my kid brother sign language and then cut off all his fingers. He hasn’t spoken to me since.”

“You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...”