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Titus knew the tears would come later. Either tears or screams in the night.
It stained the steps with streaks and slashes like rose-colored calligraphy.
Maybe we are dealing with someone with a mental health issue who should never have had access to a rifle that can take down an elk.
Coming face-to-face with the possibility of your imminent demise forces you to reckon with the career path you’ve chosen.
but that was the thing about violence. It didn’t always wait for an invitation. Sometimes it saw a crack in the dam and then it flooded the whole valley.
He could despise Latrell’s actions without reveling in his death.
Those two things were not mutually exclusive.
His secret was patiently waiting to be revealed. Hanging over his head like a dull sword of Damocles.
We all choose to be skeptics when the truth is inconvenient.
“They were Black children, Davy. People are probably looking for them, but blond hair and blue eyes make the news.”
Evil wins when good men do nothing,”
A human being with empathy and kindness in her heart.
“Evil is rarely complicated. It’s just fucking bold.”
he realized the Word was just as corrupt as the men who read it. Old Testament, New Testament, it was just words with a little w,
Ugliness seemed to fill the world like a dark elixir.
That wasn’t the whole truth. There was ugliness, sure, but there was beauty in the world, there was grace, if you knew where to look. It was there if you were brave enough or foolish enough to seek it.
“God loves the believer and the nonbeliever all the same.”
Those children deserve justice and I’m going to do my best to get it for them,” Titus said.
“You’re … going in person?” “She deserves that, don’t you think?” Titus said.
“Faith is a fragile thing, Sheriff.
Doesn’t matter where you are from or where you live, people are people. They can be jealous or hateful or twisted and sick.
“Titus, that’s not true. God walks with us in every moment of our lives. Even the darkest ones,” Albert said.
it was in those painful moments that he realized adults didn’t really know more than kids.
A man like that hates himself and don’t know why, so he blames everybody else for the way he feels.
He took a series of slow deep breaths. Kellie had taught him some yoga breathing exercises when they were together.
Whoever controlled the narrative controlled the truth.
Twenty-third Psalm
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less,’”
“Treat people bad, bad comes back to you,”
Some people were monsters among monsters.
They were also where people had the tendency to expose themselves as racists, misogynists,
“What if me trying to hold the world together is what keeps me from falling apart?”
All I do know is violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain. Hurt people tend to hurt people.
A good leader knew when he was in over his head or when he’d exhausted himself and his team.
doing the right thing was rarely easy, but it was always worth it.
“Time to end the season of pain,”
Williams Jr. But you can never kill that part of yourself, Gabriel.”
