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“People like to say some boys are just born bad and they grow up to be worse men, but I can’t get behind anythin’ so foolish. Boys are born clean. We’re the ones who dirty ’em, just as I believe Roy dirtied his son.”
― The Ruin Season
― The Ruin Season
“Life is harsh, either way. You either hate the years that you’re given, or you love the years and they leave you.”
― Hello, Dove
― Hello, Dove
“suppose my mother taught me a lesson that day; be grateful for what comes your way and don’t expect too much from life. A cynical viewpoint, some might think, especially in one so young.”
― Immortelle
― Immortelle
“But the look Charles Manson had given him one night, when he’d slammed the cell door shut, would stick in his mind always. It was the stare of a crazed lunatic, someone unpredictable, who you wouldn’t want to trust whether encountered in a dark alley or open field.”
― Setting the Family Free
― Setting the Family Free
“I miss the snow. I miss looking at it, walking in it, tasting it. I used to love those days when it was so cold everyone else would be tucked away inside trying to stay warm. I would be the only one out walking, so I could look across the fields and see miles of snow without a single footprint in it. It would be completely silent -- no cars, no birds singing, no doors slamming. Just silence and snow. God, I miss snow. The stars, the moon, the wind, and blankets of pure, pristine snow.”
― Life After Death
― Life After Death
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