“ A day without the sun is like you know, night ”

“The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch of night, a hairy darkness in which stars crawled like lice, and the moon crabbed slowly upward like an albino dog tick striving for the anal gulch.”

“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”

“Skittles: the fun,colorful candy to eat, but even funner to throw at old people.=](yes I know funner isn't a word)”

“It’s pretty hard not to like her,” he says. “Even whenyou know you shouldn’t.”

“I miss you, Jude. I'm looking forward to putting my arms around you. We're going to sing just like the old days. Everyone sings here. After a while it kind of sounds like screaming. Just listen. Listen and you can hear them screaming.”

“After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.”