"I lay on my back, feeling as if something more than the womb had been taken out." Chapter I, Page 6

"I stole it because I said whenever afterward when evil come I wanted something to point to and say, "That's what evil look like." Ursa's great-grandmother pointing out a picture of Corregidora, Chapter I, Page 12

"And what if I'd thrown Mutt Thomas down those stairs instead and done away with the source of his sex, or inspiration, or whatever the hell it is for a man, What would he feel now?" Chapter I, Page 41

"Shit, we're all consequences of something. Stained with another's past as well as our own." Their past in my blood." Chapter I, Page 45

"I tried to be friendly at first, but she didn't act friendly back, and I've always been the kind of person that when I see somebody don't want to be bothered...