Britton

“When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mug shots of the bought and sold? Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Vineland

“It was a trait common to the recently saved. Especially if one suffered from some form of dependency in their previous unsaved life. It was like they traded a secular addiction for a sanctified one.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“The public has no idea what justice costs the men who perform it.”
― James Ellroy, White Jazz

“I guess you never really know what people are really like, do you?” Davy said. “I don’t think anyone really wants to know,” Titus said.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed