“I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.”

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.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

His were the kind of eyes that held secrets. The kind that lied without flinching. The kind that once you looked into them, it was hard to break away.

Rollover minutes dont work with curfews.

You’re going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes,” i instructed vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. “is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?” “it’s not very deep. Trust me, we’ll clear it.” “looks deep to me. This is a neon we’re talking about, not a hummer.

Did you hear something, nora? Vee asked. I thought i heard something. You definitely heard something, i agreed. Could that be a dog fart i heard? Vee asked me.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

I could have danced all night!

I could have done a hundred songs, really.

The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.

I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.