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21 " Surviving is about need. Living is about want. "
― Dan Groat , Monarchs and Mendicants (Gifford Ulrich, #1)
22 " If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone. "
23 " Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys. "
24 " A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in. "
25 " Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet. "
26 " We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want. "
27 " Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender. "
28 " It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it’s so much better than before because of something you did. "
29 " Giants bleed like everybody else. "
30 " I’m not lookin’ to be anybody’s keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that’s okay, but I don’t want people depending on me to save them. "
31 " I need to work. It’s the one time my thoughts will cooperate with me. "
32 " The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself. "
33 " Not interested in scarin’ anybody, but people with good sense are afraid of a man with nothin’ to lose. "
34 " We lose keys and we find keys and we get new keys. We just have to find the ones that unlock the right doors. Sometimes, we have keys, but we don’t know what door they fit. That can be the hardest part, putting the right key in the right door. "
35 " I don’t have to save them all, just a few, or one, and then that one has to go out and save another one until this half-dead world begins to climb out of the grave it’s standing in waiting for someone to throw dirt on it. "
36 " They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how. "
37 " Death was an old acquaintance. They had met before. They were not friends. Not enemies, either. "
38 " On this morning his first waking moments were filled with the audible lamenting breath of having survived another winter night on the streets of St. Louis, those onerous recurring sighs that had become his respiration. "