“Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.”

“Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.”

“Ian's sense of right and wrong overwhelms me. Not a single other person .... I knowpossesses such an unshakable sense of morality.Its more than unbelievable. It's frightening.To offer without strings something all men crave,and be rejected by him is incomprehensible.Think I'll have to kick Kaeleigh's ass.Does she have any idea what it means .... to beso treasured? He has built a pedestal for her so tallthat she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fallwould mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear.”

“Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.”

“Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.”

“Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.”

“He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.”