You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said. "I hurried.

"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.