“Plans are just dreams until they're executed.”

“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”

“Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.Coronado: Stories”

“I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.”

“It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.”

“At that moment, Dave would have lifted a house for Jimmy, held it up to his chest until Jimmy told him where to put it down.”

“Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.”