Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”

“I can't be under arrest right now,” I said back to him. “I don't have the time.”

“My father had died when I was young, before I learned that there was anything s…”

“Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found yo…”