My Darkest Prayer Quotes

“The truth is no one can be fully protected. Safety is an illusion. There is no safety. Just downtime between tragedies.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Fools and flies both I do despise, but the more I know of fools, the more I like flies,”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“But comfortable is to art what sugar is to tea. Too much and you ruin it.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“I don't think there is anything more emblematic of the damaged American psyche than a poor white kid insulting a poor black kid for being poor.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“I’m sure she would have ended the diatribe with “Bless your heart,” which is Southern for “Fuck you, bitch,” if she hadn’t expired.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“No one ever buries an evil man, Nate. Death makes everyone a saint,” he said.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“My parents weren’t big on church, ma’am. But I believe there is good and evil. Positive and negative energy, ya know? I believe you do right by people, and it comes back to ya. Same thing if you do wrong,”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Revenge is a confession of pain.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“It was like the pain and despair of the tenants spilled out through their fists.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Safety is an illusion. There is no safety. Just downtime between tragedies.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“That’s the tragedy of this thing we call life, isn’t it? Either none of our prayers are heard or all of them are. Even the darkest ones.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Like my friend Skunk once said, ‘Everybody’s grandma done touched a dick.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“The white people’s funeral home was firmly ensconced down the county. Funeral business was the last place where segregation was openly tolerated in America. You can have your interracial marriages and mixed-race babies and white hip-hop artists and Black rockers, but when you died, it was still the amount of melanin in your skin that determined who lowered you into the ground.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“I’m so hungry I’m seeing bowlegged biscuits going down molasses lane,”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“We were not like other people. The things we held inside kept us from moving on, from moving forward. We had to watch from the sidelines as everyone else we knew was able to connect to those around them. Watch as they shared true intimacy.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Maybe if we fucked hard enough and long enough, I could forget the faces of the people who had died because of me. Either by my hand or by my actions.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“I used to pray that one day all the stuff my dad had done would get him killed.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Punch a man in the face, he might still lie. Break his fingers joint by joint, and he’ll tell you how many dicks his mama done sucked,”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“You didn’t gaze upon her and think about fucking her. You wanted to protect her. Put her in a gilded cage and admire her for the rest of your life like a captured angel.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“We were not like other people. The things we held inside kept us from moving on, from moving forward. We had to watch from the sidelines as everyone else we knew was able to connect to those around them. Watch as they shared true intimacy. And all we could do was hold each other tight in a cheap hotel room and pretend we weren’t broken. It wasn’t much but right now it was enough.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“He flashed me a peace sign and went to take someone’s order. I sipped my drink and let the warm sting of the rum permeate my body. People like Bradley always seemed to get hurt by people like me. The cynics, the pragmatists. Even if it was unintentional, we always seemed to end up crushing their dreams or their hearts with our ponderous realism.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“The weather had reached that perfect temperature that only happened between the end of September and the beginning of October in the South. The days never got over 75, and the nights never dipped below 60.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“The truth is, no one can be fully protected. There is no such thing as safety. Just downtime between tragedies.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“The truth is, no one can be fully protected, There is no such thing as safety. Just downtime between tragedies.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“had to admit I admired Skunk’s dedication to etiquette. It was a twisted version of what we in the South called good home training. Don’t ask for something to eat at the neighbor’s house. Always say sir and ma’am, and don’t murder anyone in your friend’s home unless they give you permission.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“I was just saying she is beautiful,” I said. “So is foxglove. But it’ll still kill you stone-dead,” he said.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“Curt and I got hustling on the flowers. There were more flowers in the foyer. By the time we got them all set up, it looked like the goddess Flora had shit all over the sanctuary.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“There was no crime scene tape on the door or in the front yard. Probably violated the homeowners’ agreement.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“would’ve thought I’d see a chupacabra and the Loch Ness monster playing double Dutch before I saw you up here”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer

“About six months ago, I noticed our monthly sanctuary collections were increasing. By a lot. Twice a month we would collect double what we collected on a normal Sunday. And someone was tithing like a motherfucker on those Sundays to the tune of five thousand dollars. In cash,” she said. I glanced around to make sure lightning wasn’t going to barbecue us where we sat. I may not have been an overly religious person but even I didn’t say mf’er in church.”
― S.A. Cosby, My Darkest Prayer