“There’s no such thing as a normal angel. It’s never done that way.”

“No matter how good the idea, there’s always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.”

“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.”

“It’s hard for people to stampede when they’re strutting”

“A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.”

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull”

“Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it’s the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.”