The Last Straw Quotes

“There was something both unreal and unseemly about a grown man, with a law degree to boot, fighting in the street with two teenagers, But this is what it had come to.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“He told himself that there must be a baser instinct in all of us and that in some people it lived close to the surface but that in others it was buried deep in the soul.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“Friends can make you weak and they can get you killed”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“My father used to say no matter how far you travel. you can never change where you came from. I was so damned angry back there that for a while I almost forgot where I came from.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“And I was trying to protect me. It didn't have to come to that. He's lucky he was harmless.' 'What are you talking about? If he was so harmless, why did you practically kill him?' 'Because that's what harmless guys get. Dangerous guys get something else.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“He and Jerry had worked together and sometimes taken lives together. They both knew their roles were not immutable. They were the hunters today, but they could be the prey tomorrow”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw