“How is that cut doing?" His tone had the perfect degree of unconcerned concern."Don't worry, my trigger finger is just fine.”

“And what exactly is it that you do?""I do pretty much what the name implies. I shoot trouble.”

“Styles differ, but the faces remain”

“In hoc signo vinces.”

“Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.”

“People grow, but they don't change.”

“The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of the schoolyard and asked to touch a tongue piercing.”