“Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.”
― Galveston
― Galveston
“What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel.”
― Galveston
― Galveston
“You’re born and forty years later you hobble out a bar, startled by your own aches. Nobody knows you. You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key. So you head toward the last thing you have left to lose, with no real idea what you’re going to do with it.”
― Galveston
― Galveston
“You’re here because it’s somewhere. Dogs pant in the streets. Beer won’t stay cold. The last new song you liked came out a long, long time ago, and the radio never plays it anymore.”
― Galveston
― Galveston
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