“Satisfy yourself and maybe you can satisfy others.”

“Colors play an important part of our world, so when you mix them up the outcome can be beautiful... Love blindly and selflessly.”

“A heart of gold is pure and can shine bright. However a heart mixed with the colors of gold and red can mean pure love.”

“Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.”

“What part of you is dead, my daughter?”I didn’t know—my sense of humor maybe?”

“You’re a good kid. If you’d work on your pain-in-the-ass tendencies, you’d be real nice.” “Too bad that isn’t going to happen anytime soon,” he muttered. “Real nice doesn’t get you very far.” “Real nice can keep you from getting beat up,” I said. He smiled. “Right. Maybe we should both work on it, then.”

“He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a small, overly curious tornado had torn it apart."You have got to be kidding me," I said. "Maybe I should give you to Shamus.”