“Pain can be dismissed.”

“Can you really change anything, Joel?”

“We all pretend things sometimes. And sometimes we leave thing too late.”

“Fear traps your mind.”

“People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.”

“Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.”

“Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives.‘Kero, you came? Why?’ asked Naif.‘Maybe I just needed someone to show me how to be brave enough,’ he replied with a hint of a dangerous grin.”