I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.