That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.