“Shoot me in the chest.”

“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”

“Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.”

“I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.”

“He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women.”

“A soldier will return as a hero either with a medal on his chest or a metal in his chest.”

“Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.”

“Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.”

“A kid tried to take L out, shot me in the chest with a TEC, I just laughed and spit the shell out”

“He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'
I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'
'Inside.'
It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.”