All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker

“I just wanted to show you that sometimes things survive despite the harshest of odds.”

“Best education you can get,” he said. “See through someone else’s eyes and you understand more of everything.”

“Okay is the preserve of the uninspired, Patchwork. I’d rather live and die at the extremes than exist in the middle.”

“When the rich have a problem they throw money at it to make it go away.”

“The bad are the few, but often they shout louder than the many. Don’t mistake silence for weakness.”

“Hope is expectation.

“Time changes our ability to view the things that hurt us.” “But not the pain.” “No. Not the pain.”

“She opened your world with her eyes. You’ve lived. And how many of us can say that, really?”

To love and be loved was more than could ever be expected, more than enough for a thousand ordinary lifetimes.