Quotation

“Tell you something, Markus—older you get, the more you realize the only things in this world that can really cause you pain are the people you love. === “The most important lessons are the ones that leave scars, boy. That’s what your grandfather used to say, whether we’d gotten a lip split in a fight or been thrown by a horse or whatever. The most important lessons leave scars.” === And the weird bastard looks at me with this smile like a pedophile in an amusement park === Larry had spent his life hitting hard spells like a bug hits a windshield. === “What’s he hiding from?” “Not hiding. Waiting.” “On?” “The end of the world.” === You’re police?” Larry said it as if Mark had announced that he made his living testing razor blades on the ears of live bunnies. === the Bannock was originally the path used by bison-hunting parties of the Nez Perce, Shoshone, Kalispel, and Flathead. === The road to Cooke City was filled with ghosts. Mark was used to traveling with them,