“The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.”
“Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.”
“Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a time what the words were.”
“It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.”
“Troubleshooters?" Michael asked."When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.”
“If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.”