Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

What is this thing? Did you make it?”“I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says.“You own a meth-lab, ” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

I want to have my face look like Brad Pitt. Then I'll be with Jennifer Aniston and then Angelina Jolie. Then the real Brad Pitt will come in, and we'll have a Brad Pitt face-off.