“Nora: what are you planning? Patch: i wouldn’t call this planning. I’d call this throwing a hail mary with seconds left on the clock.”

When i’m wasted, i can almost forget who i am,” he said, his smile fading slightly. “i know i’m still there, but only barely. It’s a good place to be.” he tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

If you can’t feel, why did you kiss me?” patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. “because i feel it here, in my heart,” he said quietly.

Your past wouldnt frighten me, i said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. Im guessing id be more appalled than anything.

You should shower,” i said. “right now.” “i smell that bad?” (patch) actually, he smelled that good.

There’s nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. Chase him down? How? The neon has a flat. With your own two feet! You mean exercise?

Call me patch. I mean it. Call me.

I already know my size. I don’t need reminding.

I couldn’t stand here, hanging on, when the very thing i held disappeared more with each passing day.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

I called vee. “how are you doing?” i asked. “good. How are you?” “good.” silence. “okay,” vee said in a rush, “i am still totally freaked out. You?” “totally.

I take that back. If hank wants to shoot scott, he has my blessing.

We all know you’re beautiful, scott.

He tried to pull me against him, and i bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. ‘did you just bite me?

But if i hadn’t fallen, i wouldn’t have met you.

Are you keeping anything else from me? Im keeping a lot of things from you. Like? Like the way i feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can’t say I really remember too much about it.

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

Dick Murdoch is a true Hall of Famer.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.