The Case Against William Quotes

“Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“when they fail at sports or school or life, it's not because they didn't work hard enough or they're just not smart enough or good enough. No, they're special, so it's got to be someone else's fault. They didn't fail. Someone made them fail.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Are we rich?" "We're comfortable." He sometimes said things like that instead of yes or no. That's how lawyers answer questions.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Travis County District Attorney Dick Dorkin”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Quarterbacks today, they're ripped. You ever see players at the combine meat market, standing up on stage in their skivvies so the owners and coaches can take a look?" "Uh, no. I haven't. And I don't want to." Sam chuckled. "It is a bit strange, white team owners and coaches eyeballing these big black studs same way white plantation owners used to eyeball black slaves being sold on the docks in Galveston—I saw a show on cable about that, struck me—but difference is, these black players are going to make millions not pick cotton.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“The American criminal justice system had long been predicated on a simple belief: ‘It’s better to let a hundred guilty people go free than to convict one innocent person.’ But not anymore. Now the prevailing philosophy was, ‘It’s better to convict a hundred innocent people than to let one guilty person go free.’ Crime had changed America. Americans.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“People on TV talk about kids having no self-esteem. Complete bullshit. Kids today got self-esteems the size of fucking Wyoming. Self-esteem oozes from every pore on their bodies. They been told they’re special since the day they popped out of mama and a hundred times a day since. They believe it. They haven’t done a goddamn thing in their lives, but they know they’re special. So when they fail at sports or school or life, it’s not because they didn’t work hard enough or they’re just not smart enough or good enough. No, they’re special, so it’s got to be someone else’s fault. They didn’t fail. Someone made them fail. Now we’ve got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists ’cause their mamas told them they’re special.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Congress routinely exempted itself from the laws it imposed on the citizens, much as the ruling parties in Russia and China do. Consequently, the five hundred thirty-five members of Congress could freely and legally trade stocks on inside information whereas the other three hundred million Americans could not. Frank disagreed with the law, but it was still the law.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Studies suggest that the part of a boy’s brain that controls judgment does not fully develop until his mid-twenties. And that gap between mind and body – a body that could suddenly do what a man could do and a mind that still thought like a boy – could put his son’s future in jeopardy. Throughout the history of man, testosterone and stupidity had never joined together to produce a good result. Frank wondered if he could protect his son from himself. He”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Frank nodded at him.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William