We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher