You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It’s not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.