“This town will eat you up if you’re not careful. But I won’t be here forever.”

“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”

“You remember how it feels, don’t you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you’re penned up in a small-town cage, jailed by cornstalk bars. Knowing, just knowing, that you’ll be stuck in that quiet little town forever if you don’t take a chance.”

“I won’t even pretend I didn’t care. I wanted to win. I mean, if you don’t care about winning the competition, why show up?”

“But if she could be here, she probably wouldn’t be here. But that won’t stop me from ordering for two, and if I can’t eat it all I’ll take the leftovers home so I can heat up my loneliness and enjoy it for dinner tomorrow night.”

“Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.”