Punching Tickets Quotes

“It was a dump. If there was anything nice about it, it was that I lived here with a mother who genuinely cared for me. She made my life the best she could with what little we had and I always felt loved." Shannon grew teary at the thought of it, recalling her mother. "There's something about a good mother's love that's irreplaceable. Nothing fills that void. Nothing ever can.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“Some days merit a sip of the devil's brew. This is one of them.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“They made a person. Without the bad, the good didn't exist.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“There were moments when one embraced the blessed simplicity of existence and others where one cursed the pain the world brought to their doorstep, but all those moments together made a life.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“about the mistakes as well as the successes. It was about the losses as well as the gains.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“You reach a point where your row is hoed. You are what you are and there's no changing it. It's an odd thing, this business of getting older.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“most of your life you live as if you have your whole life ahead of you, then suddenly you don't. You crest that hill without even realizing it and without warning everything is behind you. It's disorienting and sobering at the same time.”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets

“He'd spent time in this city before, it being the location of his ill-fated tryst with”
― Franklin Horton, Punching Tickets