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Rick Morrow

     “Life’s upheaval is often announced with a torrential rain of tears. It’s a dark cloud designed to cleanse the mind of regret and allow us to plant seeds of optimism with water enough to grow a silver lining.”
 
Nikolette Allen

     “You wrote something in your journal… something a professor once said: ‘Human existence is like living under a volcano, waiting for the inevitable’ or something like that. Well I think there’s more to it than that. We live under that volcano, hoping to stay alive another day. Too many of us spend our lives watching the crater, waiting for the inevitable explosion. I think that’s existence. But it’s not living. I think we need to stop worrying about the volcano. We need to turn around and see life.”
 
Liam Channing

     “If they were bringing charges against him today, based on what we know, he could be held for violating the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act and probably one additional charge.”

     Rick cocked his head narrowed his eyes. “What’s the additional charge?”

     “The murder of your wife and daughter.”
 
Sidney Perkins

     “If there’s really no future, what kind of life is that? On the other hand, if life is the future, it kind of makes the present life worth living.”