“A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

“He ain't pretty no more.”

“Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest. And like a forest it’s easy to lose your way to get lost... to forget where you came in.”

“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.”

“The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things. Grace doesn’t try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.”

“Consider, for a moment, the world a rat lives in. It's a hostile world, indeed. If a rat were to scamper through your front door right now, would you greet it with hostility?”

“I feel like I’ve been in a coma the last twenty years. And I’m just now waking up”