Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Could he hear my heart pounding?

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.

Tell me this is a nightmare

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.

Family is everything!” he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. “If you don’t have family, what do you have?

Reality is a construct of the neurons.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.p 259

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

I love In-N-Out Burgers!

I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

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