“The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.”

“I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.”

“O heart, with the very stones or bricks.”

“That name, 'Manos de Piedra', is true, Hands of Stone. Every punch, and I'm not exaggerating, every punch that he hit me with, from the body to the head, felt like bricks, stone, rocks. He knocked my teeth back. My front, my first 3 or 4 teeth, he knocked them back because he was just so possessed. He was a demon.”

“We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring.”

“Some fellows you have to hit with a brick to get their attention. Some you have to hit with a BIG brick.”

“On the top of the wall lay a structure of burnt brick, about a foot and a half in height, under the tiles and projecting like a coping. …when the tiles on the roof are broken or thrown down by the wind so that rain-water can leak through, this burnt brick coating will prevent the crude brick from being damaged, and the cornice-like projection will throw off the drops beyond the vertical face, and thus the walls, though of crude brick structure, will be preserved intact.”

“Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.”

“I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”

“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”