Quotes from Weldon Burge

Too young for a lot of things, but that didn't stop them from happening.

The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses

They must have pumped him full of some high-test elephant tranquilizer, considering how tough it was for Paolo to return to the land of the living.

Men and women were able to reinvent themselves, and to derive strange new pleasures from pain and humiliation and self-distortion. Who was to say that it was right or that it was wrong?

I think someone needs more morphine," Dr. Raymond said

THE SAD, NOT-SO-SAD, BALLAD OF GOAT-HEAD JEAN, AMBIVALENT DEVIL QUEEN BY MICHAEL LOUIS CALVILLO

Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012

You've grown tiresome. See ya.

Why would anybody want to?

Bareheaded. No cap. Instead of crisp whites, a peasant blouse. "You're not a nurse.

tattooing or any other kind of heavyweight perversion—it

All I know is when you have somethin' cut off, it means there's less of you left, and I like as much of you as can be, Lu. Maybe you should gain some weight.

Habbershaw, a kindly widow with six cats and one Chihuahua named Max—who was a nervous wreck—probably because the cats were all bigger than he was. Mrs.

bears are getting smart. Evolution, right? If they get hungry enough, they knock on doors and wait for someone to come out on the porch. Then they attack,

Mrs. Ellis opened her black alligator pocketbook and took out a black cigarette, which she lit with a black enameled Dunhill lighter. She pecked, sucked, blew smoke.

she scrutinized Alesha's chrome dome. Great. She's captivated by the drops of sweat covering it. They're probably reflecting tiny rainbows all over the room. I'm a human disco ball, whee!

In a sea of soaking-wet goths and metal-heads, she alone was completely dry,

I'm at the mercy of Editors, who are hidden behind panels and are never seen by mortal eyes.

he saw something—or someone—unfamiliar.

Twelve hundred for two hours for both." That meant Geri would collect four hundred if the johns came through.

Catsahaulics Cinco de Meow of Frankincense and Purr,

what if they had a damn good reason for chasing him, a motivation that ran deeper than "Hey, an alien, catch it!

Free spirit" sounded way better than "drunken slack-ass.