Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire, #3)

by Craig Johnson

had warned her that lawyers shouldn’t marry other lawyers, that it only led to imbecile paralegals.

“Thinking you’re not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.”

His face remained immobile as he shut the door and walked back against the traffic. “No, they are not.”

I worried about her walking home at night, but I worried about her brushing her teeth and breathing. Like most parents, I just worried.

“When they’re little, you wonder what they’re going to be, and when they grow up you just want them to be

Far beyond the badges and the guns, hope and laughter were their most powerful weapons.

I thought about how I wished there was somewhere I could go and just pay the fine and take my daughter home.

but it was worn out with love, and that’s the best kind of worn-out there is.

Family makes you tender, makes you confront your own humanity on an elevated scale; makes you deal with society, justice, honor, integrity—and that’s all before leaving the breakfast table in the morning.

poetry is like jet fuel—Wendell