“thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .”

“There's a gate in our heads, too-that's what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit comes flooding through.”

“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”

“Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.”

“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”

“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”

“As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a dirty stucco wall in a thick, syrupy sunlight that was silent except for the stupid buzz of many flies”