“He tries not to think about The Core...but he couldn't deny it...they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children”
“It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.”
“There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death.”
“Stop a knife? You're serious.""As a heart attack.""You are something else."I couldn't tell if he was giving me a compliment or a veiled insult. "I try to be an individual. It's all the rage.”
“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.”
“Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.”