"What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?" Chapter 1, page 7

"There never was such a snap and twist of the wrist, such a vampire flick of the jaws over a neck or such a champagne approach to the blood. She'd shake her star-white hair and the bitten-off chicken head would skew off into the corner while she dug her rosy little fingernails in and lifted the flopping, jittering carcass like a golden goblet, and sipped! Absolutely sipped at the wriggling guts! She was magnificent, a princess, a Cleopatra, an elfin queen!" Chapter 1, page 6

"They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born." Chapter 2, page 20

"I am merely a utensil, a temporary topic for the eternal discussion between her long...