Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.” I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.