“ I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it me… Timothy Hallinan
“ Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too. Timothy Hallinan
“ So you don't think the government is responsible for anything?" "Oh, it's responsible," Rafferty says. "It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's resp… Timothy Hallinan