a man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he's still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he's still left with his hands.
”You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, Sam. There are a number of things I would give anything to take back or change. But the fact is that I can’t. All I can do is learn from my mistakes and move on. Stop living in the past, Sam.”
❝ you say that like it’s easy. i can’t just forget it, dean. i can’t just pretend it didn’t happen. i try to make up for it, to change, but all i do is mess up, again and again. i don’t even know what’s right any more. ❞
[ ✞ ] ❝i asked a woman where the nearest rest stop was and she screamed and touched me with the device— and then she ran away.❞
his first reaction is overwhelming relief, because while tasering can be extremely painful (trust him, he knows) it hardly ever causes lasting damage. next comes some sort of misplaced humor, because come on, an angel getting tasered?
❝ shit, cas. what’d you do threaten her with your angel blade? ❞
”Well who cares? We’ve survived. We’ve helped people..and saved the world a handful of times.
We’ve done a hell of a lot more good then you seem to realize.”
❝ it’s never enough though, is it? there’s always going to be something that comes along and ruins it. i mean, jesus, dean, i started the apocalypse. there’s no real way to come back from that, you know?❞