“Them papers are clean as a unicorn's snatch!”

“No matter how bad he felt, there was nothing to be done about it. He had made hard and even cruel choices, but in the end they were the ones he knew were right. There was no use in regretting them.”

“Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?""No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.”

“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”

“Don't waste your prayers on the past, when the future is where you're going.”

“The Pepper Sisters," Falk told him, "I think you just got an eyeful of the new ad campaign for their dairy.""Were those the owners or the producers?" Jason asked."Both. It's an employee-owned co-op. Chemical-free too now that Pickle's quit smoking.”

“I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.”