Injustice For All Quotes

“and I’m humbled to think I played a part in creating them.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“Reasonable”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“get a kick out of some of the genre fiction. Especially cop stuff.” “Do you have a favorite writer?” “Dozens of them. Did you come over here to ask me about my tastes in literature?”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“it, there’s really no future and no past. There’s only now, and that’s where we should concentrate on living.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“that the only thing that’s real is the present. If you think about it, there’s really no future and no past. There’s only now, and that’s where we should concentrate on living.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“teammate”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“We talk for a while and I lose myself in the conversation, happy to be able to speak to my children face-to-face. They were such an intimate part of my life for so long, and now I’m lucky to see them thirty days a year. I marvel at their intelligence, their outlook, their honesty and maturity, and I’m humbled to think I played a part in creating them. Around”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“but I’ve learned that the only thing that’s real is the present. If you think about it, there’s really no future and no past. There’s only now, and that’s where we should concentrate on living.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“You make your way on hard work and dedication,” he’d said. “You outwork and outthink the bigots, even though you know they hate you and would do anything to destroy you. You stay true to yourself and your principles. You adapt and you overcome. That’s how you do it.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“I’ve seen glimpses of racism in his behavior before, but this is the first time he’s been blatant about it.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“file to my right is Brian Gant’s. I open the package, remove the thick sheaf of papers, and begin to read them carefully. Gaines was born in 1966. He was first convicted of aggravated rape at the age of nineteen. He served ten years and was paroled in February of 1995, just two months before Brian Gant’s mother-in-law was murdered. I find the section that contains Gaines’s parole records. They show that in February of 1995, he moved in with a woman named Clara Stoots. As I look at Clara Stoots’s address, an alarm bell goes off inside my head. I grab Brian Gant’s file and quickly locate a copy of the original police report of the murder. I’m looking for the mother-in-law’s address. When I find it, I begin to slowly shake my head. “No,” I say out loud. “No.” Clara Stoots’s address in April of 1995 was 136 Old Oak Road, Jonesborough, Tennessee. Shirley LaGuardia, Brian Gant’s mother-in-law, lived at 134 Old Oak Road, Jonesborough, Tennessee. At the time of her murder, Earl Gaines was living right next door. I dig back through Gaines’s file, curious about one thing. At the bottom of the stack are several booking photos of Gaines. I fold my arms on the desk in front of me, drop my head onto them, and start slamming my fist onto the desk in anger and frustration. As little Natalie first told the police—Gaines looked very much like Uncle Brian. Chapter Fifty-Nine Anita White walks unannounced into my office an hour and a half later wearing a smart, navy blue pant suit but looking a bit frazzled. She sits down across the desk from me without saying a word. I’ve called her a couple times since our conversation at the restaurant the morning they arrested Tommy Miller, but she hasn’t answered and hasn’t returned the calls. I wonder whether she’s looking for another apology from me. “I’ve been trying to get a hold of you,” I say. “I’ve been out of the country.” “Vacation?” “I took a few personal days, but I worked the entire time I was gone.” “Really? On what?” “It started with the forensic analysis of Judge Green’s computer. Our analyst found out that someone had hacked into the judge’s computer not long before he was killed. He investigated, like all good TBI agents do, and found that the computer the hacker used was located in another country.” “And what country was that?” “Canada.” The look on her face is almost, but not quite, smug. There’s a gleam in her eye that tells me she knows something that I don’t. I can tell she’s dying to spit it out, but first she wants to enjoy her little game. “Canada’s a big country,” I say. “Yes, and Vancouver’s a big city.” The thought germinates in my mind and begins to grow quickly. Vancouver. Canada. Judge Green. Computer hacker. What do they have in common? It dawns on me suddenly, but I’m afraid to be too optimistic. What has she learned? How far has she taken it? “Talk to me,” I say. “When I saw the Vancouver address, I remembered the case against the pedophile that Judge Green threw out on a technicality. So I got online and looked it up. David Dillinger was the witness that the judge held in contempt that day. So I started doing my job. I checked with airlines at the Tri-Cities airport and found out that David Dillinger flew back here three days before Judge Green was murdered.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“clinging to the stem of a dying rose. Beneath”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“Maybe the state legislature should consider passing a law that allows the victim’s family the option of killing the condemned. They could also give them the option of killing the condemned in the same manner in which the victim was killed. Perhaps that particular form of revenge would provide the closure they seem to crave so deeply.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“Lottie speaks of Hannah’s gentle nature and kindness, her love of family and the outdoors, her relationship with a little boy named Luke, and her almost superhuman ability to carry on through unspeakable tragedy. Her words move all of us to tears, and I find myself thinking, once again, about how unjust life can be. We board another plane that same afternoon and fly home. On the way, Lottie tells me that Hannah’s will set up a trust that would benefit her beloved Smoky Mountain National Forest.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“When I was younger, there were things I didn’t tell her. I’d rationalize by telling myself she didn’t need to know, probably didn’t want to know, that she was somehow better off staying clear of the deepest recesses in my mind. But she’d broken through a few years earlier, and now I feel almost naked in her presence, as though she can see everything. I believe she makes inquiries only to test my honesty.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“It’d be good if you’d give it a try, Dad. It’d be good if you’d stop worrying about the future so much, and it’d be even better if you could forget about the past.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“I’ve learned that the only thing that’s real is the present. If you think about it, there’s really no future and no past. There’s only now, and that’s where we should concentrate on living.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“I’d long ago rearranged the idealistic beliefs of my youth when it came to understanding or rehabilitating violent criminals. Whether the traits that caused them to commit their terrible transgressions were created by genetics, environment, or substance abuse was no longer of concern to me. My single purpose was getting them off the streets, into a secure warehouse, and keeping them there for as long as possible so they couldn’t injure, maim, or kill again.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“Republicans,” the governor says. “Just can’t seem to keep their peckers in their pants, huh?”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“the musty odor of his breath, feel the air rushing from his nostrils”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“given them information in the past, they’ve turned it over to government authorities, and the information”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“but in reality, he’s no different”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“pedophiles. Dillinger, he says, is an agent of Pedofind. He’s given them information in the past, they’ve turned it over to government authorities, and the information has resulted in criminal prosecutions. Because both are acting on behalf of the government, the search of Carver’s computer is covered by the Fourth Amendment. A warrant is required. Since there was no warrant, the search is illegal. The evidence must be suppressed. When Kay is finished, I experience the same feeling of gloom that I experienced so many”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“twenty-five hundred a”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“brightly. I park my truck behind the blue Toyota Camry that belongs to”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All