Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.