She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Don't believe everything you hear today

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?