“I should let you know that I had no idea how to play the guitar or any other musical instrument, and that the sound of my singing voice could probably draw blood from a man’s ears, and perhaps kill a dog outright.” (p.32)
“It was always 3:00am for John.” (p.33)
“”You know what I think? I think you’ll be getting calls from me for the next eight or nine years. All from tonight. I couldn’t help it, couldn’t get oriented. Kept slipping out of time… you’ve got a voice mail message three years from now that’s freaking hilarious.”” (p.51)
“Ah, that feeling again. That chill of unreality, my belly full of coffee turning to liquid nitrogen. The voice was John’s.” (p.53)
“I felt electricity inside, the buzz of the violence, sparks raining down inside my skull as if from a blown fuse. Too familiar.” (p.123)
“There was that feeling again, the sparks in my head, the old violence high, the electricity of it shivering through me.” (p.150)
“Towards the bedroom now, the gun in front of me in both hands, arms rigid, like the turret on a tank. The old sensations again, blood pumping past my ears, sparks flying in my brain, that cool sweat again.” (p.283)
“She had chin-length copper hair that it looked like she had cut herself. Something weird with her eyes. The wrong shade of green.” (p.287)
“Without breaking my gaze with the TV, I said, “To John, something being funny is more important than being true.”” (p.314)
“I leaned around the truck and saw Amy was wearing the Scooby-Doo ghost glasses, staring right at the spot where Shadow Man was standing. She pulled off the glasses and looked at them in amazement, then looked through them again.” (p.322)
“Amy said, “They can’t get us! They can’t get us in the light! I knew it!”” (p.328)
“Fuck him. Fuck everybody. And fuck you, Amy, for somehow getting me to tell you this.” (p.334)
“He stood over this large bloodstain and said, out loud and in the presence of several bystanders, “This is blood! David must have been here.”” (p.337)
“John turned to leave, and out of the corner of his eye he saw a doorway. He felt like an idiot, because how do you miss it, right in the middle of the wall like that? Tall, arched at the top, ornate. Totally out of place in a room like this. Then he turned to face it and saw that it was only a blank wall again.” (p.342)
“A warmth spread behind my eyes. Everything turned red in my brain, my skull suddenly filled with Tabasco sauce. There was a tingling in my gut, my muscles tensing… A blink. A searing pain in my hand. Blood.” (p.354)
“But the strangest thing, the sickening thing, was the urge that flashed through my mind as I was standing over him—the urge to bite—and I knew this was it again, that I had lost time, that I had lost myself.” (p.354)
“The irises were too green, that was the thing. Like grass after a week of spring rain. And there was a piercing, electric intelligence in those eyes that I had been too stupid to notice before, seeing right through me. And I suddenly had the very dismaying realization that I probably could not lie to this girl.” (p.356)
“And do you know how I respond to that, to the knowledge that I may be delusional and dangerous? I arm myself. With a gun.” (p.359)
“Two urges rushed through me at the same moment. There was the urge to surrender, to put and end to the tension and fear and accept my fate. And then there was the urge to do violence. I don’t remember making the choice. All I know is that my muscles caught fire with adrenaline and I suddenly felt the fear and rage that is the most intense high the human animal can feel.” (p.379)
“You know what this is, right? We’re in an alternate universe and this is the Eyes Wide Shut world.” (p.389)
“John hefted the dog down the hall, came to the first closed door he could find. He saw no handle on the door and no buttons or controls. He screamed, “Open, you fuck!” and the door slid obediently open.” (p.406)
“Anything above a score of thirty gets you a diagnosis of sociopathy. I got a twenty-nine. And the irony is that I had to steal the file from the cabinet to find out that score. Do you think that’s worth the extra point?” (p.444)
“”Time must move differently here. I came in right after you.” “That’s always your excuse.”” (p.460)
