Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.