““I’m getting how folks look down on small towns, and maybe in my way, I did that too. How they think the people in them are hicks. How nothing much happens in a small town so folks think the people in them don’t know much about life. But it isn’t that. They just get more of the good without the shit leaking in. And now, getting that, I don’t mind as much that my boy is goin’ into the marines because he’s gonna have learned all he needs to know about bein’ a good man, a good person, leading a good life because of the goodness he grew up around that wasn’t screwed up with big city shit.””
![“If you worked hard for it, if you didn't give up, even when you found your way and you thought you had everything, life found a way to give you more. [Zara]” quote by Kristen Ashley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e77/kristen-ashley-74_life_if-you-worked-hard-for-it-if-you-didn-t_32493.jpg)
