Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.