"I don't tolerate much. I'm not tolerating you."
"Good. Don't. It's miserable to be tolerated."
"Settling for someone I knew was settling for me. It makes you feel forever mediocre."
"As if any creature needed more than five senses."
"Love simply is where it is. My host loved Curt’s host, and that love did not die when the ownership of the minds changed."
"He was supposed to be my enemy. He was probably insane. And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask of a friend?"
Metaphor for racism:
"But you weren't even here when they took over. You didn't pick my dad or my mom or Melanie. You were in outer space then, right?"
"Yes, but I am what I am, Jamie. I did what souls do.”
“No, Ian. Really kiss me. Like… like you're trying to get slapped.”
