Dolls are like small dead people.

Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.