Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.

"Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t."

Dan Groat

"He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been."

Dan Groat