
"There was something primitively attractive about that competence, about that capacity to survive that transcended the veneer of civilization they both wore like social armor."

"Maybe there are truths that can only be confessed under a full moon, in places where civilization cannot hear or judge."

"Have you ever tried to dance away from your demons? It's impossible. They always follow you."

"Sometimes the things we leave behind hold more power than the things we carry with us."

"Sometimes the weight of memory is heavier than any burden we carry in the present."

"The weight of twelve lives lost in that accident the world never knew about still crushed his chest every morning upon waking."