On Davis Row Quotes

“You can text me whenever.” His smile died. “Did you forget?” “What?” “That I can’t read.” “No, you can’t read well. But you can read.” I gave him a grin. “And I’ll go easy on you.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“They see my beat-up face and assume I’m some troublemaker. But I don’t do nothin’ wrong. I try, every day, to be a good person. To help out and take care of Pops, ya know? I don’t ask for nothin’. I don’t have anything and I don’t blame the world for that. I don’t think nobody owes me a goddamn thing. I’m just trying to get through each fucking day.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“He put a cigarette between his lips and I was transfixed. Smoking was a filthy habit, but I’d never wanted to be a cigarette so much in my life.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“He was decidedly normal in an extraordinary way.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“cigarettes and alcohol.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“It was just a hug, but it wasn’t. It was so much more. It was human touch. It was kindness and understanding. It was reassuring and soul-mending.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“Del was right. One person was all it took. One person to care, one person to smile, one person to say hello, to ask how they were, to take a minute. It really could save a life.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“we can text”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row

“arse.”
― N.R. Walker, On Davis Row