7 Quotes by Bart Hopkins

Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born.

Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.

In a way, for women, marriage was like an extended babysitting gig. The woman was committing herself to coddling and watching over a grown man for the rest of her life.

One of the most glorious, yet tragic, things about being human was that, sometimes, you just had to learn things for yourself. Call it a flaw, call it a blessing, call it life. If everyone learned from everyone else’s mistakes, the world would be perfect.

Sometimes a beautiful woman had to do nothing more than smile to make you forget about any ugliness.

He rarely laughed, merely smiled; she laughed enough for the two of them – and it was like hearing a sunrise.

Kane tuned up Honey for a few minutes, then he reached into his case and pulled out his ball cap with the American flag on it. He rotated it around in his hands and worked the bill a little bit. Thought about what he’d done for his country, and the friends he lost. He didn’t regret any of it, even the parts that hurt. Loving his country wasn’t something that required effort on his part – it came naturally.