Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.