“I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)”

“No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies"Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.”

“Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.”

“You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.”

“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”

“I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.”

“Life may suck but death is worse.”