“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“We were just sitting on the bed, together, and you were just drinking from me, your mouth on my skin, and"

"You mean you didn't look?”

“I'm waiting 'til they get all this kit in one six by three inch lump of metal and you just stick it up your arse and it does everything for you. You get music all the time, everything's in vivid colour, your taste and all your hearing is enhanced, and you never have to do anything ever again. You can stay in bed and just live in this vortex of sensation.”

“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”

“Just because someone desires you, does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.”

“I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.”

“You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.”