I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.