Quotes from Steve Alten

Touch me with those and your next job will be cleaning bed pans." "I clean bed pans every day.

Go fuck yourself," she spat back. "Who the hell are you to criticize me? Will my weeping bring back the dead? Will my guilt? I came in here because my room is next door and I heard you screaming. Next time, I won't bother." Jonas grabbed her arm as she went for the door. "Wait. I'm sorry—" "Leave me alone." "Celeste, please . . . My brain's fried, give me a break.

Mac's navy-regulation crew-cut had grown out into a mop of dirty-blonde hair, his hawkish hazel eyes sporting a few more stress lines since their shared three month stay together in the mental ward where they had met seven years ago. The boyish twinkle was still present.

His jowls full, Scarface allows his prey to escape, satisfied to continue grinding the two-thousand-pound bite of gristle and meat

Roundup is a herbicide that contains glyphosates. Glyphosates have been shown to cause birth defects among animals and humans. Glyphosates are also responsible for wiping out bee colonies. Bees are important because they pollinate plants. Lose the bees and we're screwed." I

Terry Tanaka wrapped a blanket around him as he entered the command center. "Diving in the sea like that—are you insane?" "Technically, Mac and I did spend three months together in a mental ward.