USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.

You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.