Quotes from Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

If you don't deal with the past, the past deals with you.

Conner hadn't liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he'd learned from his grandmother's funeral that you have to go. It's expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a lot—is tucked into your pocket and carried away.

Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.

Your eyes are everything. (Maybe why some people give up on talking.)

I wish kids at school would quit calling me a porno dork-face, though. There wasn't any sex involved! I got knocked out, I panicked and called the cops. Okay, somewhere along the line everybody's clothes fell off, but that's not exactly a federal crime. Is it? I hope you don't work for the FBI. (You don't, do you?) - Email Excerpt (Page: 21) From: Douglas Bracken To: Dr. Rita I. Milton Sent: Friday, November 08 - 5:05 PM Subject: Pressing Concerns

If tears proved him still human, a touch would prove him not.

Truth is nothing but a lie manipulated into art.