I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.