Sisters of the Midnight Sun Quotes

“watching out for the community, trying to help people be safe, trying to help the kids grow up good. It’s like your Greatest Generation, only we always have one with”
― Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

“Utqiagvik,”
― Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

“So, now, was I an advocate for due process—or a bureaucratic cog acting without choice or responsibility? The answer to that question no longer seemed as clear to me as it should. Ellingsworth wasn’t troubled by such questions. He didn’t listen to the Native community. Perhaps I had listened too much.”
― Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

“Due process, I said to myself. Amos was entitled to due process. For the first time, the words sounded in my head more like “bureaucratic process.” In any case to which I was appointed, it was my job to defend, the DA’s to prosecute, the judge’s to referee, and the jury’s to sort the facts. This system, in which I had been trained and in which I believed, provided justice only if all played their roles well. It wasn’t my role to jump the rails and determine right from wrong, guilty from innocent.”
― Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska