“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.”

“Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk."They're for you.""You want me to look homeless,...”

“Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.”

“I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.”

“Mutually assured destruction.”

“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”

“I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.”

“A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.”