You know one day, you're going to look back on these days. And everyone you went to high school with will either be getting married to each other, shitting out kids, or dropping dead like flies," when she spoke, Miss Jenson sighed at the end of every few words; she must have been narrating her own thoughts she might have otherwise kept to herself, "and everything you never did, you'll never be able to even try.
Dave Matthes, Paradise City
alcoholism, ambition, blood, booze, bottle, bravery, calm, childhood, coming-of-age