Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.