Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.