By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.