DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

We all have stories we tell ourselves, until we believe them to be true.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

the image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.

You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.