"I can never get a zipper to close."

"I didn't think I'd be true to a man again as long as I lived..."

"They ain’t been here long ’nough. They just barely human. Maybe not even. They suck up the world, don’t taste it."

"The intimacy of her mother’s hands and the warmth of the water lulled the Girl into a trance of sensuality she never …"

"There is no such thing as children’s literature."

"Literature is an affair of letters."