True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

What is it about her that is so goddamned special?

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

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

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.