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“A year later, there is another miscarriage, another lost boy, and then an operation, and Rachel is in a muddle. Another missed carriage, she hears, conjuring a vision of Mama in a typical dash from the house, hurrying for trains to other cities where she will conduct music and choirs. Rachel sees Katya on a railway platform, suitcase and baton box in hand, but Mama is too late, the train hurtles by, screaming through the arches, a great train of missed carriages. Rachel's night-time wish is granted then, that though Katya has left her once again, she must return home as quickly. She has missed her carriage. 'Mama,' Rachel whispers into the night bedroom air, 'Mama, hurry home!”

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”

“Satisfied?” Still on the ground, I scurry back from him until my shoulders strike a tree. “Words, Quinton,” Hauck calls from the other side of the clearing. “Use words.” “I did.” Quinton growls back at his brother. “It didn’t work.” “Try again.” Quinton steps closer to me and bares his teeth, showing a set of elongated canines. “Take off your skirts, human. I’m not used to repeating myself.”

“I find it utterly abhorrent that the magic of language to splash marvelous visions across darkened minds and infuse hope to hearts where it had all but vanished is turned by greed and avarice to the endeavor of manipulating visions and imputing false hope. However, if we would stop ‘hearing’ the words and start ‘listening’ to them, we would bring an immediate halt to such atrocities.”

“Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto.”

“It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.”