"God's work" (Chapter 1, p. 16).

"Ah, no, they're good people. They just don't know what it is they're doing. Or what's being done to them. It's about fear. You know? They're all throbbing with fear. We all are" (Chapter 1, p. 29).

"With all respects to heaven, I like it here" (Chapter 1, p. 47).

"You ask me if I'm using heroin, man? It's worse than that, brother, much worse" (Chapter 1, p. 57).

"How dare he do that with his own body? Throwing his life in everyone's face? Making her own son's so cheap" (Chapter 2, p. 113).

"You clip a van, you watch your life fade away" (Chapter 3, p. 127).

"You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again" (Chapter 3, p. 145).

"There is a fear of love" (Chapter 3, p. 156).

"My babies" (Chapter 7, p. 222).

"Here I come...