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You can be two people: shining and perfect on the outside, and any damn way you want on the inside.
I sat silent, unwilling to give him even a single one of my emotions. I missed that, too: getting to show happiness and anger and misery when I felt them.
Most defendants got convicted based on inadvisable cooperation with the police before they talked to lawyers.
Blunt people never understood how much better it was to make people think things were their idea. It was always worth the extra time to come at things the indirect way.
Back in law school, they told us we’d be helping people. They didn’t mention that we would, more often than not, dislike the people we were helping.
They ain’t gonna throw you in jail, not you, ’cause if they do, that means it could happen to them. They don’t like to think about that shit.”
Pointing a finger at a racist lets them off the hook. If you’re busy yelling at a racist, you can’t be one.”
Men had run the world for centuries, but their sexual desires would forever be their Achilles’ heel. A clever woman didn’t even need to gratify them—all you had to do was hand them just a little hope and you could walk away with your only slightly sweaty tits still covered and everything you came for in the palm of your hand.
