“...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldnt that make a charming epitaph? Here li...”

“Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" o...”

“I resisted the urge to hurl my plate at him. Of course not, Ian. Its just that normally at this hour, Bones and I are fucking like rabbits, so I get twitchy when I have to wait for him to climb abo...”

“Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.”

“Get me your manager. Dove held her head high and tried to seem older and more self-assured. The teenager barely registered her request. Do it now. My friend here is about to crap his pants. Do you ...”

“Duke was already sitting in the passenger seat, waiting for her. She got in and started the car. Duke busted into a Slim Jim of his own. You hairy toad fucker. That stuffs nasty. Your toilet must b...”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”