“It’s a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.”

“If my life were a movie ... the title sequence would start out like a typical high school story, but then reveal that something's amiss. There'd be a tight shot, or piece of dialogue, or something ...”

“A good tanto is a nasty thing, and when the point entered a human neck, it was like the last period in a biography.”

“Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Whod be next?”

“Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.”

“A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.”

“We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.”

“Sara, we have to go," she whispers, even though my dad isn't there to hear her. She's not crying. She's calm. Matter-of-fact. As if she's asking me whether I want mayo or mustard on my sandwich. Ex...”

“The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead s...”

“It is said that in death, all things become clear.”