“The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.”
“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.”
“Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.”
“I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?”
“He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.”
“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”