“We can all live with doubts. It's the knowing that breaks us.Iron House”

“Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you.”

“We didn't run through fields of flowers, hand in hand. No music played when we kissed. No house landed on my mother. I didn't let go of everything all at once and become some bright and shining example to prove all it takes is a knight with a hammer to break the glass tower. Life doesn't that way. We tried, though, as we still try, every day, to make this work. To be honest and faithful to each other. To listen. To look ahead of things that lie before us instead of always staring behind at what we've left behind.I don't know what the future brings. All I know with utter certainty is this. Dan tamed me. We need each other.”

“Our questions, which began politely, were politely ignored.”

“Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.”

“I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?”

“Disgust was an organ in Hunt's gut. The more he thought about it, the more it churned.”