Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

Nothing sparkly can stay.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

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