Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

"A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging."

"How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith."

"Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it."Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?"

"For his part, Jazz knew he was handsome. It had nothing to do with looking in the mirror, which he rarely did. It had everything to do with the way the girls at school looked at him, the way they became satellites when he walked by, their orbits contorted by his own mysterious gravity. If attention could be measured like the Doppler effect, girls would show a massive blue shift in his presence. In the last year or so, he had even remarked the scrutiny of older women—teachers, cashiers at stores, the woman who delivered UPS packages to his house. What had once been a maternal flavor in their glances had taken on a lingering, cool sort of appraisal. He could almost hear them thinking, Not yet. But soon. Despite his upbringing, despite the infamy of his father, they still watched him. Or maybe because of it. Maybe Howie was right about bad boys."

"I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds."

"Howie: "What if the whole thing was just an accident"Jazz: "And what? Accidentally cut off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll take them with me…Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?"

"What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?."