“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”
“It’s exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it’s so much easier for them to be bad.”
“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
“The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.”
“She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.”
“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”