Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?" "Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.