Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

You want sweet dreams, lose the attitude and you might find I'll give you reason to have them.

She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.

Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other.