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If you do it, you can never go back, he tells himself. That’s also true.
Once you start, you must keep on, he tells himself, and that’s truest of all. His father’s mantra: You have to push through to the bitter end. No flinching, no turning away.
All Trig can think about is what he’s lost, what he did, and the amends he must make.
“Better for ten guilty men to go free rather than for one innocent man to suffer.”
“Stop while there’s still time to stop, before you step over the line. Once you’re over the line, you can never come back.”
One drink is too many and a thousand are never enough.
as John Lennon once said, life is what happens when you’re making other plans.
“What you hear here, who you see here, when you leave here, let it stay here,”
There won’t be room service in hell, only doom service.
Both were vampires who drank pain instead of blood.
You attract weirdos the way a magnet attracts iron filings.”
“Needs must when the devil drives,
Don’t stick your finger where you wouldn’t stick your dick.
The two things make something new and powerful; the two things also cancel each other out.
“Shoemaker, stick to thy last,”
pride goeth before a fall, but she feels pride, anyway.
feeling the first sun warm her face, digging the day.
it’s like the poet says: nothing gold can stay.
he doesn’t expect heaven or hell. The god of his understanding is a selfish being who assigns humans to oblivion and keeps eternal life all to itself.
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” where the sound came from beneath the floorboards. Like a watch wrapped in cotton, Poe wrote,
When the tears let up she gets down on her knees, closes her eyes, and asks God what she should do. Either God speaks to her, or her secret heart does. Maybe those things are even the same.
this is just another human being. A fellow rider on the journey from cradle to coffin.
talent is just an illusion.
