“There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it ca...”

“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”

“If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.”

“I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were s...”

“The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back.”

“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.”