In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.