“The past is a gaping hole; you try to run from it but the more you run, the deeper, more terrible It grows behind you, Its edges yawning at your heels.”

“The way I see it, there's only two types of people; those who spend their lives trying to build a future, and those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past.”

“As surely as the bullet rips through...the victim's flesh, organ and bone, it shatters the image of the man who pulls the trigger.”

“Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you.”

I could only see a small picture of what was going on. Like looking in a mirror and, for a second, seeing what everyone else sees; A bad caricature of a better man.

“There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwords, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.”

“Einstein was right. Time Is relative to the observer...when you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second.”

“Memories come in waves. Tonight, I'm drowning.”

“The trouble with wanting something...is the fear of losing it or never getting it. The thought makes you weak.”

“Dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you're not looking.”

“There was a blind spot in my head...a bullet-shaped hole where the answer should be. Call it denial. I wanted to dig inside my skull and scrape out the pain.”

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