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It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.

There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

[H]e knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.