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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.
He thought trees were the closest living things to immortal on earth.
“Reverend, if you’ve seen the things I have, you’d realize the devil is just the name we give to the terrible things we do to each other,”
like everyone around here is a goddamn virgin and no one has ever stepped on a sidewalk crack or stole a grape from the Safeway.
it was in those painful moments that he realized adults didn’t really know more than kids. That everyone was making it up as they went along
I wish Jesus was real so he could chase you down the aisle with a goddamn whip,”
It occurred to him no place was more confused by its past or more terrified of the future than the South.
