I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.