"Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them."

Family, Men, Change, Pressure, Emotion

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"Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them."

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"Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger."

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"The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean."

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