Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.