“Baby, you read me like one of your books; except I’m not the hero. I’ll never be the hero.”
“I’ve been so busy I haven’t managed to contact her since this morning, but she’s been hovering at the edge of my consciousness all day, like a guardian angel. My guardian angel. Ever present but not intrusive.”
“Damn right. She’s my girl. Handkerchiefs are my business, not his.”
“We move in the light. We slow in the shadows. We stop in the dark.”
“I slip it into my inside pocket, pleased that it will rest close to my heart.”
“I’m her lost boy, now found.”
“Christian, I’ve long held the belief that you never really had an adolescence—emotionally speaking.”
“You’ve seen the photos. You’ve spoken to the boy.” “His name is José,” she asserts, louder this time.”
“what does a young woman from Montesano do to keep herself amused?” I take a sip of my beer. “Read.” “It always comes back to books with you, doesn’t it?” “Yes.”
“Such are the ways of politics, where the crusade of the hour often blocks out everything else, at least until another crusade comes along and takes over the same monopoly of our minds.”
“I’m so fucking pissed that I was born in Cali. I’d clean up if I said ‘y’all’ and ‘fixin’ every other word,” Jake complained.”
“Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said. 'They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”
“If I had been in charge of reorganizing the government’s security agencies into a homeland defense organization, I would have divided the responsibilities into two agencies: The Bureau of What the Fuck Was That? and The Department of What the Fuck Are We Gonna Do Now?”
“Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.”
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