"In place of answers, rumors spread like a rash, mutate like a virus, till no one is immune to ignorance."

"Rules are for the young or weak."

"People pretend they’re not greedy, lustful, savage creatures, but I’ve yet to find a problem that money, whores, or drugs can’t solve."

"Pressure and pain compound and expand till all I am is what I lost."

"His smile strengthens, his tell of fear. We’re too much alike. The stronger the mask, the weaker the core."

"This is how our story ends. Once more opposites, magnets, strangers to each other and to ourselves."

"I am a weapon. Nothing more. Everything less."

"Aren’t we a beautiful disaster?"

"That’s the watered-down slogan I feed the kids. Easy to remember, to repeat, to market. They squawk it like parrots, because they’re too young to taste bullshit."

"She’s the kind of beauty that stops traffic and starts wars."