“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.”

“He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.”

“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...”

“Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.”

“This is not a book about race, though the disproportionate number of those who fell that day were black, and certain racial themes are unavoidable. It is not a book that sets out to compare the Uni...”

“1. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. We better make sure kids cant get guns.2. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and ...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no en...”

“For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generationsthe casualties can never be fully counted.Every war, no matter how...”