“It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.”

“No good story is quite true.”

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

“Mrs. Kersey had not been questioned at all, as far as I knew. She had the air of someone with a story all made up to tell and no one to tell it to.”

“Do you have to do murder?Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.”

“She was scared about leaving everything, and I got that, but I also knew you couldn't start living in the new place until you said fuck-all to the old.”

“In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.”