Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to me. Hunter Seth Haskins, her firstborn son. I've been chocking that down for nineteen years. Why did she go on her mindless way, leaving me spinning in a whirlwind of her dust?

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.