He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who mig…”

“Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in y…”

“A drink this good deserves one's best posture.”

“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: …”