She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.