Status Updates From The Line That Held Us

“Fate’s a funny thing, he thought, the way things might seem meaningless at the time, but wind up being what brought down a man’s whole life.”

“What I’m saying is that it’s easy to take the high road so long as there aren’t any stakes. But the minute you’ve got something to lose, a man’ll do all sorts of things.”

“Dwayne understood that his brother was not meant for this place, that some people were born too soft to bear the teeth of this world. There was no place for weakness in a world like this. Survival was so often a matter of meanness.”

"They were not men accustomed to such darkness. They were ordinary men—work-hard, weekend-warrior, get-up-and-go-to-church kind of men—and what they’d just seen, where they’d come from affected them so. Numbness and disbelief hollowed his insides, a fire trapped in his flesh with the truth of what they carried."

“Empathy’s not standing over a hole looking down and saying you understand. Empathy is having been in that hole yourself.”

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