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People love to believe in danger, as long as it’s you in harm’s way, and them saying bless your heart.
folks so godly as to pass around snakes, also passing around black eyes.
Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.
let me tell you what a city is. A hot mess not easily escaped.
He said they made us out to be animals so they wouldn’t feel bad about taking everything we had and leaving us up the creek.
Look farther down the pipe, see what’s coming. Ignore the damn tomcats. Quit the dope.
Most people never get anywhere close to being that much alive.
To start over someplace from scratch, as nobody and nothing? I hated the thought. I was only just now starting to exist.
Some good was known to come out of bad luck, if you met it head-on.
as you’re living with an addict, you’re addicted.”
She was not in the business of throwing her life away so other people can stay shitfaced.
Trust the road. Because nobody stays, in the long run you’re on your own with your ghosts. You’re the ship, they’re the bottle.
It goes a ways to explaining people’s feelings about taxes and guns.
It’s hard to explain how you can miss a place and want it with all your heart, and be utterly sure it will obliterate you the instant you touch down.
