Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.