Quotation

we determine what story they need to hear. It’s the story that they’re already telling themselves, don’t you see? It’s the nightmare they believe in. Once you understand that nightmare, you join them in it. Their fear becomes your fear. === they feared the government, believed in shadow conspiracies, and were firmly convinced that the U.S. military was looking for any excuse to claim first the guns and then the freedoms of Americans. === “That boy isn’t the sort to send you on a wild-goose chase. He’s the sort to send you into a hornet’s nest.” === “He runs meth out to the oil fields,” Larry said. “He’s been doing well lately. The Bakken’s been better to the drug business than it has to the oil business. === “Someday,” she said, “we will all be returned to the earth. This is the certainty of our existence, the only certainty. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Whether as ashes or dust, you will return to the earth. How do you wish to be greeted?”