Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.