Fred Barnes

“Each and every one of these people was somebody’s adored offspring, a new life they brought into creation. We may despise the things they did, but each was something unique, that has never existed before and never will again. We honor that, celebrating the potential that each realized during their time, and mourning the potential that each did not.”
― J.N. Chaney, Hand of Fate

“Ain’t no kinda real man in that crowd. If they’re holdin’ a gun, we shoot’em. If they’re hurtin’ anybody, we shoot’em. If they’re stealin’, we shoot’em. If they threaten any women or kids, we shoot’em. If they’re still alive, we shoot’em again. That ‘bout covers it, don’t it?”
― N.C. Reed, Odd Billy Todd

“Survivors of disasters did not create conditions and circumstances. They reacted to them.”
― John A. Heldt, River Rising

“You accept a man shitting on you,” she used to say, “he’ll make himself at home. There’s no three strikes. You use me, take me for granted, you prove you don’t deserve to be in my life.”
― Kennedy Ryan, This Could Be Us