“You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.”

“Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than they’re worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.”

“They's lots of work in this world that aint never paid for. But the accounts gets balanced anyway. In the long run. A man that contracts for work and then dont pay for it, the world will reckon with him fore it's out. With the worker too. You live long enough and you'll see it. They's a ledger kept that the pages dont never get old nor crumbly nor the ink dont never fade. If it dont balance then they aint no right in this world and if they aint then where did I hear of it at? Where did you? Only way it wont is you start retribution on you own. You start retribution on you own you'll be on you own. That man up there ain goin to help you. Aint no use even to ask.”

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”

“I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”

“It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.”

“The hardest lesson in the world:Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.”