Status Updates From When These Mountains Burn

"The more time goes on, the harder things are to reconcile. Sometimes there is no accounting for the wrongs a man has amassed over the course of his life, and Denny knew he’d long passed that point, that for years his relationship with his sister had been a matter of mercy rather than forgiveness."

"It had never been that addicts didn’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."

"I was wondering if you could still get your hands on some nitro.”
"I don’t know whether to be insulted that you had to ask or tickled pink I get to blow something up.”💥

"That’s how this whole place had fallen apart to begin with, by good people seeing the boat was taking on water and refusing to plug their fingers into the holes. Too many people had stayed quiet and done nothing, just stood back and let the world go to sh*t. Raymond Mathis was sick of watching it sink."

"There comes a point in life when all there is is remembering. A life is nothing but the sum of its yesterdays."

There's something about Appalachian lit that always does it for me.