Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.