Bastards Quote by Steve McHugh

“But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”

— Margaret Atwood

“Nobody worth a damn could ever come from such a place. It was nothing, like most places and people are nothing.”

— James Dickey

“That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but…

— J.D. Salinger

“The world really is a fucked up place after all.”

— Amy Cross

“Tell them all to go fuck themselves.”

— Self

“No, the world’s not all shit. There are just some seriously shitty people in it,”

— Joy Ellis

“You don't have to fuck people over to survive.”

— Seth Tobocman

“I hate the world. All the fragile people in it. Every one of us.”

— Amy McNamara

“There are comforts in knowing the boundaries of the place you live. Everyone here seems to behave like things are endless.”

— Anthony Doerr

“And there are those who have little and give it all.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“The world is a fucked-up place,”

— Amy Cross

“It made me think all the nowheres and even the nobodies of the world might stand a chance after all”

— Linda Kage