“holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.”
“As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.”
“Don’t tell me you’re guarding the pearly gates. You never struck me as the angelic type.”(Meghan to Machina)”
“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
“For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.”
“I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.”