These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.