No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude

Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude

I am not a morning person.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.