"Lucas looked back toward the ramp. 'She's got a major edge on her,' he said.
'She's in a hurry to get this guy,'Sloan said. 'She needs to get him in the next month or so.'
'Yeah? What's the rush?'
'She's dying,' Sloan said.'" Chap. 2, p. 37

"Junky though about that, pawing his face with his good hand, then his head bobbed, as though he'd worked it out. ''Cause a woman turns you on, that's why. Maybe you see a woman and she turns you on. Gets you by the pecker. You go around with your pecker up for a few days, and you gotta do something. You know, you gotta cut some women.'" Chap. 7, p. 108

"A look crossed Cherry's face, a quick shadow, and Lucas recognized it, had seen is six or seven hundred or a thousand times: Cherry had done it...