Book Quotes 1

“I woke to a sense that something was near me, the tone in my head gaining volume. A light tailwind ever so gently had blown the hairs on my arms and the hairs on my neck as if someone or something had just moved past my body. I liked sleeping on hard surfaces in the…

“One at a time, the others began to notice, their faces changing from laughter to horror as Jenny began to oddly arch her spine backward more and more, finally falling off the cement barrier onto her back. Her right arm and pointing index finger stiffly extended upward toward the sky.”

“When the massacre finally ended five domestics were dead, three leopards were terribly wounded, and Mitch had lost a full-grown goat. For me the aftermath of the dog massacre was far worse than the massacre itself. That was the night I would start seeing the very dark side of Mitch Teel.”

“I watched her every day as she would roll her wheelchair over to the bed, her frail bony hands grasping the handrails of the wheelchair, her nearly translucent skin stretched over her knuckles and tendons exposing thick purple veins, struggling to lift herself up onto the bed. With pillows behind her back, she settled herself…

“As I struggled to regain my composure, I began to realize this wasn’t a preemptive warning that usually accompanied the tones. No, this was a dizzying sense of release! It was massive emotional purge as if I’d just been dumped off roaring bullet train chaotically barreling down the tracks out of control….”