“Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.”

“Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet....”

“Pete squeezed Jack's hand, hard as she could. "You're not alone," she told him. "If you've made up your mind to die, then I'll be with you here, until the end. I'd follow you into death if that's what you asked, Jack. Heaven, Hell. Anywhere at all.”

“You're in my blood like poison. And I'd die because of you.”

“You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.”

“I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing.”

“You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”