“We teach our child many things I don’t believe in, and almost nothing I do believe in. We teach punctuality, particularly if the enforcement of it disturbs the peace. My father taught me, by example, that the greatest defeat in life was to miss a train. Only after many years did I learn that an escaping train carries away with it nothing vital to my health. Railroad trains are such magnificent objects we commonly mistake them for Destiny.”
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“Some People have Different Faces but Remember with one Face we will always go to the End.”
“You could read the story of his entire life on his face in one glance.”
“A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.”
“Broken?" I laughed. "Nah, princess. I'm a shattered fucking mess.”
“That's what life is, a series of fuck-ups and what you make of 'em.”
“Like fire extinguisher in the emergency kit made as: burn to emerge.”