“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.”

“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”

“I came from Thailand for you, because Mia said she could probably get you here. I'd have come from Zimbabwe, Outer Mongolia, or a prison in Central America. In truth, I came through hell get...”