“You do somethin' for me? Go tell Twink I'll meet her at the old grove Tuesday about dusk-dark."Jody was frozen.He burst out, "I won't do it. I hate her. Ol' yellow-headed somethin'.”
“I can't tell Beth about me being Shadow. She'd get uptight about me doing something she thinks is dangerous."That's not why you won't tell her. You won't tell her because what's on that wall is what's going on in there." He tapped my head.”
“Then you shouldn't have thrown her away when she was your wife. Now she ain't. Now she's somethin' to me and I don't let men I don't like get close to her and I gotta tell you man, I do not like you.”
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”
“You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?”
“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”