“The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.”

“Every time a horse let you up onto its back, its giving you its life. Every time.”

“Thats what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.”

“Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.”

“Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.”

“And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what...”

“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”

“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might...”