He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he’d come down all bitey.

It’s cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

Chong said, “Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you’re staring at a girl’s boobs, look up. You’ll be shocked to learn it, but there’s going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes....

He’s a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there’s either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there’s nothing wrong with my skills.

There were more of them out there. More walkers. And I was being asked to step up and be… what? Some kind of Captain Heroism who would lead the boys in the Red, White, and...

So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?””That’s your choice. You can’t change the past. Ah, but...

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

…as of this moment there’s the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way… and my way. If you want me to function at my best then you’re going to have to...

I’ve managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I’m a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.—Richard Pryor

They won the war but lost the peace,

The economy blows, or don’t you read the papers?””Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.

Nix still held Benny’s hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at...

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace.” “I thought that if you had courage you always had it.”. . .”Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope...

I knelt down and hugged the furry monster for a while. If it was too tight, Ghost didn’t seem to mind. He wagged his tail and whined a little, sensing the hurt that I felt....

Sometimes there aren’t words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines....

There are moments that define a person’s whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.