All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

If only my heart were stone.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.