She was mine. For the sake of appearances, she was my wife, but she was mine anyway. She didn’t know it yet, but I did. It was wrong and it made no sense, but she belonged with me. No one else, not anyone else.
She needed to appreciate the art of violence, the beauty in fear, the fragility of her own life.
Dedication For anyone who has ever taken a chance on uncertainty.
I just hated to think I looked like crap around tall, handsome men. Even if they were gingers.
Your face never looks better than when you’ve got a gun in your hand and money under your ass.
Tattoos were self-expression at its rawest and most permanent form. They weren’t for one set of people or another.
Everything’s coming up Milhouse.
You must feel your soul is dirty then.” He gave me a wry smile. “Oh, my darling. No,” he said, opening the French doors for me. “I don’t even have a soul.
He greeted the twins like they were all from the same hood in Compton and gave Dex and me the head nod.
I’m merely branding you,” he said. “Don’t make it sound so ugly.
It’s just life. You make what you can of it.
Shut up, you Brony,” I said. He looked appalled while I heard Wayne whisper, “What’s a Brony?
There was something kind of nice about operating out of the safe house – it was basic and simple, like camping for kingpins.
Whether you believe it or want it, Vera, you are my family. You are my universe. And I love you more than anything.
Very few people with these abilities can find each other in all the worlds. When it happens, you know. It’s a magnet affect, a sense of finding your missing half, someone who gives off what you do and draws you in like they do to you.
So that’s it. It has one ex-girlfriend of mine. And it’s not satisfied. It wants the only person left on this earth that I... that I’d do anything for. Just throw her into the pot, who cares. I lost her once, I cannot lose her again.
Did I look like crap because I felt like crap, or did I feel like crap because I looked like crap? Ah, the mysteries of life.
He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil.
I wanted to break you,” I murmured against the blood. “I wanted to destroy you, ruin you. But you would not break. You will not break. Why won’t you?
I guess when you expect the worst it’s always a pleasant surprise if everything ends up going smoothly.
Nothing like a hot woman to make two chubby girls feel like they’re having a bonding moment.