15 Quotes by Jeff Arch

Money doesn’t carry a flag.

The sharpest sword in all of creation is useless, if there’s nothing to swing at but air.

…this is what the years can do. One day they’re playing Vivaldi and releasing doves outside the cathedral for you, and the next day they’re hiding behind barrels in the dusty center of town, watching the two lone gunslingers squaring off in the road.

And they knew it was a lie; nobody gets over the death of a child. Easier to split an atom with a butter knife.

Nobody won the fight. Nobody wins any fight.”
He envied the ones who stayed in their hometowns, and built their lives there, and were happy with that. He wondered what it would be like to feel at home in the town you came from.To have it be a part of you that you would actually want to keep.

They kissed goodbye—somewhere between a routine kiss and a wish that it wasn’t.

He felt like the place was reeling him in now––slow and sure, like a kite, pulled by a hand that was as strong as it was unseen. Killing the lie that he was ever flying free in the first place.

You don’t start learning until you start remembering; it’s the things that stay with you that become your guides. Just as the things you forget can become your demons.

His eyes, barely open, were glazed and distant. There wasn’t a single vital function his body could perform for itself; machines crowded around him, hovering like apostles.