“But you couldn’t touch this kid right now, bullets would have dodged him.”
“And touching him - I would have to stop doing that as well. But not now. Later, perhaps.”
“Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.”
“—that if she touched him right now, their flesh would recognize each other. The wildest thought: these scars, his and hers, would speak to each other, communicating intimacies that could not be unshared.”
“This ain’t fucking right. He shoulda never been there.”“It was an accident, Travis. You couldn’t have known something like this was going to happen,” I said, touching his cheek.”
“Would you have really killed him? (Lorelei)For touching you, absolutely. (Jack)”