All the Sinners Bleed

by S.A. Cosby

“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.”

“The South doesn’t change … just the names and the dates and the faces. And sometimes even those don’t change, not really. Sometimes it’s the same day and the same faces waiting for you when you close your eyes. “Waiting for you in the dark…”

Scott was the type of man who complained about the world being too sensitive these days without ever acknowledging the irony of his own fragility or privilege.

“Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less,’”