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"Do you remember what it was like to have teeth that rent and tore?
I shall give them back to you."

"I did not truly know her, he had said; I did not know the extent to which she would go to garner attention and sympathy. But even if that were true, I did not think it a crime to wish for sympathy."

"I loved you once, when you were not so dull."

"I ran my fingertips across it, and then my nails, as if it might be better if I had real bruises to match those he'd left on my pride. Would it have been different, I wondered, if I'd been able to explain to him what electricity was?"

"It was unbecoming, this hunger of mine. I knew that all too well."

"We were all made of the same stuff, it seemed; the most significant difference between myself and the whale was not our species, nor our size, but the fact that I was alive and it was dead."

"I could not help but feel how cruel it was that after all this time, I should have to suffer this conversation yet again--for if there exists a way to respond to condolences that does not feel like ripping open the stitches of a wound with one's teeth, I have not yet found it."