No Coming Back Quotes

“We all harbor secrets. Some are so dark even light doesn’t intrude.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“We cling onto the hurt because it keeps it real and alive.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“When we lose someone close, that’s what we do. A personal inquisition.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“It shows that the mind is trying to come to terms, to deal with sudden loss or unwanted change. Think of it as a Band-Aid for the brain.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“The mind is a composite of realities,” she continued. “Replaying traumatic events and working through alternative outcomes is its way of compartmentalizing the incomprehensible. Reflection, analysis, and conjecture are all constructive functions.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“Fix what’s fixable and make the most of what’s not.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“But beatings make for great teachings. They teach me restraint, diplomacy, the power of silence”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“It’s the kind of foreign shore where my brother would have defended his country.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“time is no solace. Time is a sentence on the soul,”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“You see any signs of trouble, anything at all, you turn yourself around and you run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. You got a boat load of baggage now. Dragging it behind you like a ball and a chain. People notice something like that, and they don’t take kindly to it; they see you for what you are, which in their eyes is nothing short of trouble. You thought life was hard on the inside. It’s ten times harder out here. In the real world you’re as good as dead meat. Worthless. I’m not kidding with you. It’s tough. You need to put in ten times the effort. Anything less and you won’t make it. The world will eat you up and spit you out.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“Jake, the first rule about users and abusers is they lie through their teeth, for any number of reasons—including to get attention.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back

“Time is a sentence on the soul, stretching out the pain.”
― Keith Houghton, No Coming Back