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

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.