Fury ignited behind my breastbone , a hot glow like coals blooming into something sharp and dangerous. It was the same old crap- someone thinking they can push you around because you’re young, because you’re...

I love you!” he shouted, his eyes glowing laser green.”I love you, okay? I’m not some hopeless retard you pull along behind you because you feel sorry for him! I love you and I’m going...

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the...

You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get out. You can only cope for so long before everything breaks.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

strong medicine” could be good or bad, just like the laxatives she was forevertalking about. Good for makin’ the mail move smooth, but too much and you shit yerbrains out.-strange angels

And death doesn’t wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can’t even see straight

Hey, Dru. You were French-kissing awinged snake. Creeptastic.

Anything for you, Dru. And I mean it. Now, be quiet and let me concentrate.

She never made me think I would die of heart failure. She never, never made me fear for her this way.

I rubbed at my temple, where the zit was gone. It still hurt a little , though, deep under the skin. I hate those zits that burrow underground. You think they’ve vanished, but no, they...

Who. Hit. You?

sobbing like a girl,” I guess so.

Every kid’s afraid of that right? That someday you’ll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.

We’d never work, Nat. You’re too high maintenance.”We both cracked up, and right then, the darkness was kind.

It’s woman’s power, food is. You be sure you know where’n the hook is before swallerin’ it, Dru. You mind me, now.