I can't believe he stabbed the guy. Eight years old. I'm the most irresponsible kidnapper ever.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.

Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty. 'P-ilfering P-adgett's P-ockets Pr-oduces P-ossible P-ath to... to—' Well, clues and shit.