He was broken because of the army, and the army didn’t want him because he was broken.

For me the most valuable part of this kind of research, however, is just hanging out with the men and women on the job, listening to them, absorbing the atmosphere and attitudes of their world.

People who had never experienced suicidal thoughts didn’t understand the seductiveness, the insidiousness of those thoughts.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.

She couldn’t concentrate enough to lose herself in a book – her lifelong method of escape.

Parker suspected that Jace had been born an adult. At nineteen he had a larger sense of duty and responsibility than ninety percent of the people Parker knew.

Tattoos are a road map of the bearer’s personal journey.

The zombie is the angle. You want people to get to the rest of what you just said? Embrace the zombie. We live in a society of self-absorbed, unaware drones desensitized to the suffering of others.

Beneath all the unintelligent commentary about pop culture and what everyone had for dinner, the Twitterverse was a turbulent sea of vicious accusation, unsubstantiated rumor, and outright lies. The false facelessness of it gave people the freedom to strike out in ways they might never have dared in person. Even the meek became assassins on Twitter, drunk on the counterfeit confidence of imagined anonymity.