And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

A peace that blacked yer eye, ' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. “The words of a sage, ” he says, “in the voice of a hick.

The boy who refused to lose his soul.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit

You won't, " says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd."He pushes Viola forward again -She calls out from the pain of it -Viola, I t

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

TODD!" I shout again -And he looks at me -And I hear my name in his Noise -And I know it -I know it in my heart -Right now -Todd Hewitt -There's nothing we can't do toge

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

She took no pleasure in knowing…whatever he asked of her, she would do.

Fashions fade - style is eternal.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

I don't need a man in my life.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.