“She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.”

“If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.”

“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful. Why be careful? Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.'Cause she'll damn well do it....”

“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”

“Hed only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun hed always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one co...”

“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.” “Why be careful?” Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.“'Cause she'll damn well do...”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can'...”

“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.”

“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”

“I heard Tash say: Nomi, youre sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me that some people can leave and some cant and those who can will always be infinite...”

“Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.”

“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”