If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

My life is not just about the past.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.