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“There’s always a man. Whenever anything fucked up happens in the world, there’s always a man.”
“I can’t decide if suicide is the most selfish or selfless act.”
“I just wish there was a middle, you know. Because that’s where people live. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing … sink or swim like that. Most people just tread water, and that’s enough. Because when you’re sinking, you’re pulling us down with you.”
“You ever think people look at you but don’t really see you?”
Better and worse. Bad and good. None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done. Vincent King is a murderer. He killed
“The universe finds a way to balance the good
and the bad.”
“Is there a difference between a prayer and a wish?”
Walk took his hat off. “You wish for what you want and pray for what you need.”
“Pretty sure mine are one and...
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“You’ve got enough.” “Who decides what enough looks like?” She stared.
Bad things happened to bad men.
“The minister said we begin at the end. It would have made for easier years if I thought for one second Sissy was somewhere better than a small wooden box. I try though, every Sunday I try.”
There was something strained there, the only way it could be when two people who’ve seen each other naked reconvene.
Everyone needs a name.
Most of all she felt tired. Not from the work or the sleep, just from the wretched hatred that lived deep inside her.
“I am a constant disappointment to myself.”
“Understanding for what we have done and might do.”
“After that night, after what he did, he knew none of us would find freedom again.”
“Hal said we begin at the end.”
She passed the beds, the forgotten children slept, dead to the world for those precious hours when they could forget their place and occupy another.
“You sound like a child. The notion of fair.” She closed her eyes.
“People are complex, Walk. Just when you think you got them figured … he gave me an out if I ever needed it.”
“You can’t save someone that doesn’t want to be saved.”
just allowed himself a moment to remember a time finally beginning its fade.
