This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.