“Try to free a slave with ignorance / Try and teach a whore about romance”
“Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.”
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
“Keeping that man out of trouble was like trying to return a whore to chastity.”
“He tried not to think about his Grandma’s opinion of whores and drugs. He could only believe in the pattern he’d learned from Beckett—a pattern of respect and kindness.”