* 'And that was how Louis met Judson Crandell, the man who should have been his father.'
* 'I was surprised, maybe even stunned, but the idea that Johanna Arlen Noonan might have been leading another life, one I knew nothing about, never crossed my mind.'
* 'It's aggravations I mostly want to talk about-- can you sit a spell with me?'
* 'We want to die, that's why we're doing it. Why else, Garraty? Why else?'
* 'Get up, woman. Let's us get in and pray. Let's us pray to Jesus for our woman-weak, wicked, sinning souls.'
* 'Come here, you pup! Come here and take it like a man!'
* 'The morning I got it on was {nice;} a nice May morning.'
* 'She was a bad joke, and what Arnie saw in her that day I'll never know.'
* 'I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher.'
* 'We all float down here. When you are down here, you'll float too.'
* 'What he did later he did with no conscious thought of the future or consequences. He did it in much the same spirit that he had bought the two guns at Harvey's Gun Shop a month earlier.'
* 'I spent all morning carrying chunks of asphalt up from the ditch and placing them back into the trench...'
* 'Thinking about Duddits always made him feel good.'
* 'His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.'
* 'There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess---I'm the guy who can get it for you.'
* 'Maybe they were able to do something with his feet later. Maybe they were.'
* 'I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve.
* 'When the scratching started, Howard Mitla was sitting alone in the Queens apartment where he lived with his wife.'
* 'I parked the heap around the corner from Keenan's house, sat in the dark for a moment, then turned off the key and got out.'
* 'It was her third time with live ammunition... and her first time on the draw from the holster Roland had rigged for her.'