Words I like

From Carter Beats the Devil:

“I mean,” he rallied, “ there’s joy and wonderment to be had.  I love to perform.   It fights back the loneliness.  It’s all I really know how to do anymore.”

“I see,” she said.  There was no reason she should understand him.  He had in his way cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted across a canyon, hoping she’d heard.

AND LATER...

Borax shook his head.  “You can’t really save people.”

Borax, of all people, saying this?  Carter felt like a curtain had, unfortunately, been drawn back for him.  “You have to try,” he responded, but without much force.

I'm feelin' it.