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Children and animals were easy targets. Neither had learned to be wary of good intentions and sweet words.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less,’”
“If my father was alive—” “He’d call me a racial slur and try to threaten me the same way you did, and I’d ignore him too.
“Not that way, Sheriff. Albert liked his whiskey and he liked to cut a rug, but he loved your mama. Don’t you ever trouble yourself about that.”
It occurred to him no place was more confused by its past or more terrified of the future than the South.
“Negro, you did not sign up for no Silence of the Lambs shit.
the church that she loved and the God that she prayed to heal her are just placebos that don’t fix the poison we swim in every day.
It felt strange to attend to the mundane and the profane at the same time, but that was a defining aspect of the job.
“Hoping is trying to swim across a river, preparedness is bringing a map to find a good place to cross,”
Titus was too tired to roll his eyes at the idea of Caleb suing the county, because his driver had run down a crowd of peaceful protestors.
Say she came back to help her boy. I know you don’t believe in that, but wasn’t it nice to hear her voice? Cuz I’d give anything to hear her one more time,”
