I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

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.