Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

"I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!"