It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

I start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy.

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all