Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

I don't break; I bounce.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.