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Room 4-C. I foresaw it.
Here he comes and there he goes,
Did it hurt? Pulling chunks of metal out of my ass with a pair of longnose pliers? Yes. Well. You would of had to of seen her. I’m going to say that it felt just about right. Western smiled.
You think that when there’s somethin that’s got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It’s waitin for you. It always will be.
Do you ever think what it would be like to meet a person you’ve known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You’re thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didnt know their history.
He thought about the passenger but he never went back out to the islands. The fire leaned in the wind and seawater
People want to be reimbursed for their pain. They seldom are. On that cheery note.
Nothing. It’s just that sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it. Funny.
She told me once when I was in a suicidal snit that there are certain dispensations for those who survive their own reviling.
You have to be careful about who you do away with. It could be that some part of our understanding comes in vessels incapable of sustaining themselves.
Vor mir keine Zeit, nach mir wird keine Sein.
It must surely be true that there is no such collective domain of joy as there is of sorrow. You cant be sure that another man’s happiness resembles your own. But where the collective of pain is concerned there can be little doubt at all.
Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
