From "The Monkey's Raincoat"

"'Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that.  In Pinnochio."

--Elvis Cole's line on page 58
of Robert Crais' first novel The Monkey's Raincoat.


(Keith would have gotten the point of the quotation from a crime novel, would have asked at least three good questions, and then would have debated our respective positions for as long as we felt like it.  That's a good friend.)