Best We Begin At The End Quotes by Chris Whitaker

"Sometimes there's just too much history there."

"If you can’t right a wrong, if you can’t ever do that…"

"I am the outlaw, Duchess Day Radley, and you are the woman beater, Dickie Darke."

"I was glad I still knew parts of it. It’s not just the vacationers that changed, it’s..."

"I think about it often. How we were. I see the Cape Haven kids, like Duchess, and I think of me and you and Star and Martha."

"You remind her of everything good. You are the man in her life, the person that doesn’t lie or cheat or fuck people over."

"If I let it go, if I let that last light go, then it’s all dark, and I won’t be able to see it anymore."

"I'm trying. I’ll be better. I said my affirmations again this morning. I’ll say them every day. I want to do it for you."

"Being a policeman is... I like my place. I like my life. I want to keep both."

"None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done."

"The universe finds a way to balance the good and the bad."

"You wish for what you want, and pray for what you need."

"Sometimes people complained I favored him, said I gave him more time in the yard and shit. I did. I did all I could to give him it. Life … partial life, whatever."

"It’s alright, Walk. What you’ve got going on here. I’ve got a cousin that works in Alson Cove and he loves it, the pace is slow, the work is easy."

"I hope he gets beaten so bad. I see it, you know, when I’m lying down at night. I see his face. I hope he gets beaten till there’s nothing left."

"I’ve got a fairly good idea who I need to talk to."

"We go to church on a Sunday. Canyon View, we don’t miss it."

"I’d do anything to stop an innocent man being put to death."

"She missed six in a row, each time yanking her hand back from the kick instead of planting her feet."

"Summer was breathing its last, Hal said fall was spectacular."

"She doesn’t come for me," Hal said. "She likes you, and she doesn’t like many people."

"I like the beard by the way. Nice. Real nice. It’s coming in thick."

"Vincent’s case is not winnable, you do know that," she said.

"The natives called this the backbone of the world."

"Everyone needs one. The storeroom, the guns, that’s where I go to mull things. I sit down there and I shut out the world and I focus on what matters."

"Free will is an illusion, sooner you accept the sooner you get on."

"She dressed different back then, I saw photos. She wore boys’ clothes, shapeless, baggy, but he still came."

"Life means having somebody care enough to protect you."
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"A child is always better with a parent in their life." - Richard Darke

"Your future isn’t written yet, Robin. You can be anything. You’re a prince." - Duchess

"There was a time when things were better. When we were kids, don’t you remember that?" - Walk

"I want to be that man again. I just … it’s all changing. I’m losing myself." - Walk

"We endure, right. That’s what we do for those we love." - Walk

"The world would be a better place with more people like you in it." - Martha to Walk

"You think we’d have been together in another life?" - Walk

"I’ve seen all sorts. They pass through, on their way out, on their way back in." - Shelly

"A child is always better with a parent in their life. But the place she’s in. That’s what she needs. That’s all I can give her." - Richard Darke

"Fuck. Please, Walker. You let the cops take me and my daughter dies. I’m out of money now, I’ve got nothing. The club was all I had. I can’t pay to keep her alive."

"You need to wipe your prints off it. There’s a key in my pocket. A lockup outside the Cape. West Gale. There’s things in there I want Madeline to have. It’s important she knows us."

"We don’t have time. Just do it, Chief. Give my girl a chance."

"She rode above the wheel, every bump in her bones, the road laid out like a scar across land her grandfather had once traversed, his only happiness far behind."

"It was only the night, when the moon emptied into the Artaya Canyon and the driver slowed the bus and dimmed the lights that Duchess allowed herself to think of Robin."

"She ran out of money someplace outside of Dotsero, bulging hills cratered, a volcano rose, green trees parted for sterile land so red she bent to touch it."

"Outside she watched truckers, trying to select the right one based on nothing more than a gut instinct that had not steered her all that well in the past."

"That your wife with her?" "Used to be. I liked to drink." He pointed to a pin on the dash. "Eighteen months sober."

"Walk spent a night and day dealing with the fallout."

"Walk pulled up, headed over and took the keys from his pocket. He checked the number on the tag and found one of the smaller units. He unlocked it and stepped into dark, found the switch, light flickered, strips cast dull yellow."

"Duchess stood out front, an old Taurus parked up at the curb. She’d taken the keys from a lady playing the slots in a bar in Camarillo. She’d leave it there, keys inside, too tired to feel sorry now."

"You want to sing, girl?" She nodded. "Alright then."

"Walk thought of Vincent on the other end. He wondered how ground down he was, if there was any of the kid left in there."

"I am the outlaw, Duchess Day Radley. And you are the murderer, Vincent King."

"You can’t save someone that doesn’t want to be saved."

"And then she found herself on her feet, and she was moving and again the people parted, the women watching her like she was a child, the men watching her with something like curiosity."

"Duchess pressed her palm to the glass, and said goodbye to her brother."

"Duchess walked into class with Thomas Noble. ‘Did you finish?’ he said. ‘Yeah.’"

"She felt all the eyes on her as she glanced at Thomas Noble, who smiled and motioned for her to start."

"Duchess cleared her throat, turned to the front and began. She led with her father, the outlaw, Vincent King."