“Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.”

“If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are.”

“You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher)
So do you. (Julian)
Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)”

“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”

“It is problematic to imagine yourself in the shoes of a criminal and conclude, “Well, I wouldn’t have done that”—because if you weren’t exposed to in utero cocaine, lead poisoning, or physical abuse, and he was, then you don’t fit in his shoes. Even if you would like to imagine what it’s like to be him, you won’t be very good at it.”

“What must it be like, to have a boy like you so much he cries for you?”

“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”

“Trouble,” he chuckled. “What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.”

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

“Boy I tell you what, if I were a girl, I'd never shave! I'd look like I'm smuggling around Chewbacca in my underbritches!”