“Americans look for heroes in the strangest of places.”

“Peace of mind comes in the strangest boxes.”

“looking off at the past as though it were a place one might still get to”

“Nobody likes for the hero to walk away.”

“The world was an awful place, too awful to live in, if people could kill a President so easily.”

“The big television crouched in the shadowy beam of the porch light. Mattie could see its black, open face, and she felt as though she were looking into the mouth of a deep, dangerous cave.”

“This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.”