Status Updates From The Smoke Jumper

I couldn’t tell you where this book is going if I had a map and detailed directions.

“You could worry yourself sick trying to be a better person, spend a thousand sleepless nights figuring out how to live clean and decent and honest…kneeling by your bed every night and swear to God you’d stick to it, hell you could go to church and promise properly…and then, like a hawk on a rat, some nameless catastrophe would swoop into your life and turn everything upside down and inside out forever.” 1

“You could worry yourself sick trying to be a better person, spend a thousand sleepless nights figuring out how to live clean and decent and honest…kneel by your bed every night and swear to God you’d stick to it, hell, you could go to church and promise properly…and then…like a hawk on a rat, some nameless catastrophe would swoop into your life and turn everything upside down and inside out forever.” -1