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Sometimes a girl who doesn’t like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she’s got any common sense at all.
These days, stranger beings haunt the wilds.
when the moon is just setting sail on a sea of stars.
He doesn’t know if Ace is a man or a woman—or something stranger than either.
The amnesia that denies him all knowledge of his life before that would be psychologically crippling, even devastating, if he wasn’t convinced, intuitively, that he’s much better off not knowing who he once was.
Not all of it will be used to tip waitresses.
Should a monster who has no mercy be accorded mercy at his end? Civilized men say yes. But perhaps it’s hard specimens like Ace who make civilization viable in the first place.
Strange science must be involved, which intrigues him.
“Anyway,” Nameless says, “the reason I stopped was I saw you moving along the drop-off there, the camera up to your face, and it gave me the chills.” “I’m as sure-footed as a mule.” “Maybe so, but this spot right here . . . I don’t mean to sound superstitious, but this place has major bad mojo.”
Mallory is playing a game, as though he knows something, but he can’t know anything. He’s a know-nothing nobody, too suspicious for his own good.
Justice can be politicized, but truth cannot; truth is what it is.
Death fears nothing.
Some strange science has made him what he is, and this seems to be a new manifestation of it.
“What I will say is just this: We’re living in a time when private citizens can discover—hack their way to—all the evidence, all the proof, that the police, the FBI, the NSA, and others have access to. If for whatever reason the law can’t or won’t put it all together in a case like yours, there are those who will.”
But he admits to being unforgiving of the wicked. Forgiveness is the work of priests, and he is no priest, nor does he want to be one.
Concerning people who commit the most terrible crimes, he does not believe in second chances or the possibility of rehabilitation. For them, he doesn’t believe in pity or mercy. He believes in hungry mountain lions and the right recompense for the suffering of all the little animals.
What is the force that through the circuit drives the current?
