"I figure it's got something to do with finishing things up. Maybe if I just tell, the story, tell it all from start to end, I'll finish it."
Chap. 1, p. 4

"And His eyes. They were like those brown ponds you sometimes see in the woods. So dark and shining—but when you try to see yourself in them, you can't."
Chap. 1, p. 6

"All this time I'm thinking he's some lunatic who hitched into town to murder people with a pickax, and I'm his first target." (Chapter 2, page 10)

"Moments as a little child, I guess, that caused my heart nearly to burst—some wonderful toy, the ocean, my mother coming home to me. Such moments as those I guess brought the joy."
Chap. 4, p. 23

"I would have died for him. And in some ways, I guess I did."
Chap. 6, p. 36

"When I stuck my face to the...