Rudy

“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That's what they inflicted on us.”
― Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

“I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.”
― Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

“There wasn’t any way out of that darkness but forward.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go

“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time