"I'm already there, waiting on slow assurance."
"I slept that night as snug and carefree as I have in years and I did it with the girl next to me and her kid tucked in between us. We didn’t need to waste hours filing our claws at each other or hammering out the technicalities of us, I didn’t reach out for any intimate parts or moments. What we had wasn’t love and it never would be, and that was the point of it. I hoped by then that she was already understanding what I was really bargaining for with our deal and her comfortable silence assured me that she understood. I didn’t need or want love, I already had that back before the world ate itself, it was awful, mean spirited and constantly self-aware of every little moment of let down and betrayal. In a world that threatened to eat us all at any moment, I had something better than love, I had a partner in all this shit."
"Emma wasn't my end all be all, and I would never be hers. My sudden choice to head back to Frisco and into De Silva’s employ wasn’t about lacking love, it was about lacking purpose. It came solely from the realization that my time in my lonesome valley was over. I had my world away from the world like I had always wanted and in the end, I realized it was just as drab as it sounded. I put myself where I was. If I hated my life so much, it was the one I had created, and if I hated it enough, it was up to me to change that."