" There ain’t many people out there who have my respect. Respect needs to be earned. Preppy’s got mine. The man might have a case of verbal diarrhea there ain’t no cure for, but he’s been through hell and back. He’s been tortured and brutalized the likes of which most folks can’t begin to imagine. Most men, the strongest of men, in both body and spirit would’ve caved after that.
Not Preppy.
Not Samuel Motherfucking Clearwater. "

― T.M. Frazier , Up in Smoke (King, #8)