“if you ain't from no barrio, then you aint born."-a ten year old boy”
“The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...”
“...you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.”
“As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?”
“Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it, goats'll heed your say-so, if you ain't, they'll jus' trample you muddy an' stand there scornin'.”
“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”