It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody. I'm going to find out what you're up to. I'm going to expose you." "Looking forward to it.

It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

Hank had left me his doomed army, and he’d left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn’t begin to cover it.