There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender.


Boy in the Water: A Novel (ed. Penguin, 2015) - ISBN: 9781101991794

Stephen Dobyns Quotes

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered...

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered...

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered...

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered...