A Shattered Lens Quotes

“Funny how terrified we are of inchoate things when our reality is far more desperate.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“As Preach waited for her to appear, he couldn’t get a quote from Kierkegaard out of his mind. “The truth is a trap,” the philosopher had once written. “You cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“If I have a child who dies before I do, I’ll believe in heaven.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“Even worse: she had known a father’s true love, and because she once had, she felt her loneliness all the more keenly.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“Never mistake education for intelligence, and especially not for drive.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“From Preach’s time as a prison chaplain, before he joined the Atlanta PD, he knew the true horror of incarceration was not the loss of freedom, but the daily choices one was forced to make to survive. Navigating the jungle without becoming one of the animals. Most people that landed behind bars—not all, but most—had disadvantaged upbringings and poor choices to blame. It was prison that turned them into criminals.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“A crime against a child was a stain on the human race”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens

“To ward off the chill, Preach buttoned his double-breasted, forest green overcoat, the same one he had worn his entire career. Ari teased him about it, but the musty smell kept him grounded. Connected to all the cases that had shaped him as an officer, for better and for worse.”
― Layton Green, A Shattered Lens