"There’s only one red line we have to worry about, only one little tick mark where the dial has to land in order for me to break my promise, and that would be if you told me you were going to kill someone."
"I thought about it and I couldn’t let him go alone. I could help keep him focused. I could keep him from doing something dangerously stupid. I could be the voice of reason, especially if Tavo didn’t want to go."
"He’d been shot. Bad. Angela was here with him. Good. What else was good? He searched his brain. He wanted something else to be good."
"Someone’s there. Someone who sounds like they’re having as bad a day as I am."
"There was nothing this woman said that I did not like. Her sentences were pithy, like a combat general’s orders in the heat of battle."
"With everyone gone into the yard, or upstairs, the Shadow Man enters the house."
"I left work early to beat the storm, but I’m barely going to make it back to the island."
"Looking down across the New Town and beyond from this height, nothing was stirring. It was like the zombie apocalypse without the zombies."
"Her eyes are hard and the smile she was wearing is gone."
"He was a serial killer. Not someone worthy of love."
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