Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.