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Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.

She knew that by the morning she would be suffering from arse-ache. She smiled, remembering how, as a child, this was what she thought women were suffering from when their husbands went missing at sea. Arse-ache-heartache, they could sound the same to her.

Men don't fear death, but insignificance.

Dream big!

—¿Siebenbürgen? —preguntó —¿Qué clase de maldito nombre es ése? (Nicholas Dean)

—Hola pequeño —saludó Ioan a través de la pantalla.—Pequeños son tus genitales —respondió Rob mostrándole el dedo medio desde la cámara del computador de Dave.

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are.

I can't be in love with a man who lives in another world.