Order in the Courtroom Quotes

“Normalize not believing everything you hear. Normalize fact checking.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Nowhere else for Jekyll to Hyde, so he crawled inside himself and died.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I'm not the cool kids. Cool kids never speak up, they are too busy with being cool. Speaking up is for the real gangstas.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Here I am counting my blessings, wins and successes, while the closest people to me are counting my trials, losses and curses. Same book, different page. It be your own family.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“He didn’t like how his character was written into the story but he refused to acknowledge that the character was a carbon copy of himself. So he rated the book a zero and that’s ok- because the author rated him a zero also.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I'm an open book, but I am still a hardcover.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“As we move through the seasons we are in, we move knowing that another is always to follow and the process repeats as we move through the years.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Don't tell me where I live if I have not told you where I live. That's not the flex. It's creepy.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“For the record, I am the record.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Go with me into the book. It's safe here.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“If you stop speaking to me over something you heard I did or said, please keep that same energy when you hear that it was a lie. There are no do-overs here. Sincerely, Self-Care and Preservation.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“One of the morals to the story: Don't just study your cards... study the players.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Some people are not worth the weight of words. I do not argue with, nor do I debate with just any ol' body. I would have to respect you before I entertain either, I will leave my comment and then I will be on my way.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“We’re coming for you Dr. Jekyll. You can no longer Hyde.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“There is a profound detachment from reality in expecting someone to recover from harm while simultaneously refusing them the right to acknowledge its origin.

Healing is, by definition, investigative. It requires tracing cause to effect, experience to impact, injury to source. When individuals protest this process, what they are often resisting is not injustice, but attribution.

If the path toward restoration reveals them as the central contributor to the damage, the discomfort they feel is not persecution — it is proximity to accountability.

One cannot demand anonymity after leaving fingerprints.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The courtroom and the card table have one thing in common: Everyone thinks they’re being watched. Very few realize they’re being read. This book is about the ones who learned how to read first.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“They thought she was just playing cards. They never noticed she was studying people. The difference between amateurs and legends isn’t the cards they’re dealt— it’s what they see while everyone else is distracted.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“What I build outlives the moment that made it.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“My only response to those who persecute me when they can’t seem to understand, process, or believe the truth about the things I’ve been through and the glory of it all is simply this: Wow! Of all the things that GOD could use you for in this world, he found nothing. Nothing? Damn”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I don’t want to die, chasing a whale. That was my takeaway from Moby Dick”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I wish that people knew that anyone can file a frivolous lawsuit with false claims as well.

I hate that the court of public opinion always weighs in on it without any facts or substantial evidence.

People want to validate their hate toward others so much that this has become the norm.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I’ve died at least three times, I know.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Trying to translate a court order while having a 8th grade education is wild to me. Just do the job you were hired to do, Dana.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“A mix of local news, world news, and shocking headlines coupled with experience and real life scenarios coated with imagination and intimate thoughts... the ones you can't say aloud = BOOKS”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The transformation into something that can fly, is the reason I am called a butterfly.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Dr. Datura was good. But only a certain type of woman believed him. They were usually the ones looking to be saved. The forlorn ones.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Profits are and would be nice. However, I benefit from the healing component in writing and I’ve always taken prescribed doses when there’s an onset for the need. Writing is my superpower. Writing is my healing potion.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The story is in the story. Not everyone reads... A few will listen. No one hears..”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Vindication is mine says the Author.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“In and out of a relationship with our ex's can be compared to that thing we go back and forth to the kitchen searching for, throughout the day or night (mostly sweets to satisfy a craving) looking each time to find that there's absolutely nothing there. Why do we do this?”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player