But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

If only my heart were stone.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.