A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

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

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

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.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

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.

We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.