If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.