“Never negotiate with terrorists, make bargains with mobsters, or drive downtown on game day. Some things are just a given.”

“Just because the bully was always nice to you, never stole your lunch money, didn’t make him any less of a bully, did it?”

“Every conversation they had anymore it felt like instead of unraveling the mystery, it just further entangled all of them into a twisted never-ending knot.”

“Intentions were powerful things.”

“...for there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined.”

“No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else’s play.”

“She wished with one part of her soul this weren’t real and with the other that it was, but wasn’t it just another goodbye either way?”