"I ain't tellin' you it's not peaceful enough," he points out, seeing the way she'd flinched. "I'm fucking shocked I made it this long without getting in any real fights, and sometimes that's just 'cause I don't wanna get demoted."

Which is a terrible fucking reason not to shoot a man, but he knows where he came from.

"There's always gonna be people out there wantin' something from you that you ain't willin' to give."