And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

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?

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

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

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