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“The South doesn’t change. You can try to hide the past, but it comes back in ways worse than the way it was before. Terrible ways.”
Disrespect was a pestilence. If you let it go unchecked it would infect the entire department.
Even the people we loved kept pieces of themselves hidden away from the light.
“Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.
Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.
equality’s surest foothold was found on the autopsy table.
“Evil is rarely complicated. It’s just fucking bold.”
Old Testament, New Testament, it was just words with a little w, written by zealots as PR for their new cult founded in the memory of a dead carpenter.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less,’”
“Treat people bad, bad comes back to you,”
It occurred to him no place was more confused by its past or more terrified of the future than the South.
“Hoping is trying to swim across a river, preparedness is bringing a map to find a good place to cross,”

