Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.