“This is what I say: "Leave me alone!"This is how it comes out: "Leefmaown.”
“I’m only going to say this once,” I say to tattoo guy. “Leave me alone.” “Or what?” he asks. Thought you’d never ask.”
“I’ll come back to you,” he whispered, not meaning to say it out loud. “And I will ravish you over breakfast, and I will never leave you alone another night of my life.”
“Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.”
“People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.”
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”