I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
Money can't buy off the lightning.
Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.