All it took was for a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power, and then pay for their innocent choice. - Hugh Howey

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

The tweezers weren’t where they were supposed to be. He dug in the bottom of the kit until he found them, cursed the men on other shifts with no respect for their colleagues. It was like living in a dorm, Darcy thought. No, not the right word, the right memory. Like living in a barracks. It was the semblance of order over an underlying mess. Crisp sheets with folded corners over stained mattresses. That’s what this was, people not putting things back where they belonged.

Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.