There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

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.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

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.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.