“The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took”

“This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.”

“The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.”

“I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car”

“Growing up, Joe had adored his brother, Then he'd come to hate him. Now, he mostly didn't think about him. When he did, he had to admit, he missed his laugh.”

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

“Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit.”