“Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?”

“Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting.""No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't.""I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.”

“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.”

“There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.”

“The lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.”

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”

“Cuz that's it -That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -When yer winning -When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -”