As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Here is the boy, drowning.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

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

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.