Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

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."