The Meaning of Our Tears Quotes

“After all, at almost forty-three-years old, his brother”
― Trudy J. Smith, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“sad. It just didn’t seem real that they were all gone.” - Stella Lawson Boles”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“seemed like I couldn’t do anything but cry. We all gathered that morning before the funeral in the front room of the house...It was so”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“They are going to bury all them people in one big grave.” Bob couldn’t imagine what they were talking”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“DIGGING THE LAWSON FAMILY GRAVE”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“Charlie, my old friend, my good friend--how could you have done this?”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“White Christmas, Bloody Christmas.”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“Thomasville, North Carolina. A”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“I handled that cake many, many times. Each Sunday night we would put the cake in a small wooden box and carry it home with us to keep people from stealing it... ” - Stella Lawson Boles”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

“Not now, but in the coming years, It will be in a better land. We’ll read the meaning of our tears. And then sometime, we’ll understand.”
― Rod Spellman, The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929