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21 " We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it? "
― Don Winslow , The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)
22 " Then know,” Caro said, “that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don’t have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it. "
23 " But there’s no wall down there, Keller thinks, smiling. And there never will be. A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst. Keller knows. He’s been on both sides of the border. He takes Mari’s hand and together they limp back down the hill. "
24 " I don’t know about this,” Cirello says. “What you don’t know?” “Like why here?” Cirello asks, looking around. “All this empty space. Parking lot, a construction site …” “You scared, white?” “I’m not white, I’m Greek,” Cirello says. “You see that movie, 300? Those were Greeks.” “Didn’t show that at V-Ville. Too gay. "
25 " Because he knows that the ghost has come back. And with it, the monster. "
26 " Su hijo era una ortodoncia andante, con su factura correspondiente: cuando no estaba en el dentista, estaba encerrado en su habitación haciéndose pajas; y su hija estaba resentida por haber tenido que dejar a sus amigos de Glendora, sobre todo a un tal Travis al que Eddie estaba seguro de que le hacía mamadas. "