So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

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.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.