There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.