“You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.”

“There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.”

“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”

“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”

“Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had been burned on a high heat but remained raw in the middle.”

“Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.”

“Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.”