13 Quotes by John Larison

...they think a man is made real by the violence he wields.

Remember is the name of all children. In that name is the seed and the thaw.

I held the money in my hand. I couldn't reckon its weight against the man left behind.

Tea has a manner of setting the world right.

If you got a ma looking out for you, all you got to do is grow up.

It is the burden of the survivor to wake one day and discover in yourself a stranger.

...Pa was a good soul, full of respect for the women in his life, which might be the straightest measure of a man.

Ain't nothing more natural than a girl on a pony.

This life is cut with trails unrode. There was a time I resented that fact, the cruelty of being stuck to only one. But age like I got teaches you to be grateful for those trails untook. The old mind can wander their lengths and see what the eyes was never allowed, what the eyes would have missed. I’ve had time to wander those trails that interest me.