“Where you go, he'll go," Stebbs said."I know it.""Tough caring about people, isn't it?"... "Wouldn't trade it," she said.”

“Where you go, he'll go," Stebbs said."I know it.""Tough caring about people, isn't it?"... "Wouldn't trade it," she said.”

“We're cleaning cat ears.Rhonda doesn't require us to come in on Sundays, but somebody has to feed the animals. Yesterday Alex and I helped five cats and two dogs find homes...We agreed we probably could have placed a couple more cats if their ears were nice and pink inside like in the wet-food commercials. We told Rhonda to take a much-deserved break today and we'd come in, feed everybody, and make our cats a little more like the ones on TV.So I skipped church to clean cat ears.”

“When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt.”

“Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.''Don't think I care for that.”

“You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.”

“Men got two guns, you know. One for now," he tapped the barrel of his gun against her nose. "And one for later." When his free hand went to his zipper, she twisted underneath him, bringing her knee into his groin and pulling her knife from her boot."Mother taught me to carry a knife for always."She left him holding his intestines in disbelief as she disappeared down the hill, his gun tucked securely in her waistband.”

“My arrival saved the kingdom, while his only reiterated that his blood would fill the throne one day.”

“...just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not the truth...”