No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.