I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.